Medical groups rubbish 'red herring' claims about same-sex parents
Two of Australia's leading medical groups have rubbished claims by opponents of same-sex marriage that children are worse off in same-sex families.
Michael Koziol is the immigration and legal affairs reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
Two of Australia's leading medical groups have rubbished claims by opponents of same-sex marriage that children are worse off in same-sex families.
The Turnbull government was scrambling on Friday afternoon as problems emerged over its same-sex marriage survey.
An angry delegation of Labor MPs confronted opposition immigration spokesman Shayne Neumann on Wednesday night about what they view as Labor's silence on Australia's offshore detention of refugees.
"We want the process to be fair," Senator Cormann told Fairfax Media.
Justice Kirby has lashed out at the "Mickey Mouse" postal proposal, which said was unprecedented, disrespected Australians and discriminated against marginalised voters.
Lobbyists on both sides of the marriage equality debate will be free to distribute misleading and deceptive material ahead of the same-sex marriage postal vote, because the usual campaign rules have been discarded.
Liberal MPs who support same-sex marriage warn the postal vote must have a high turnout to be legitimate.
The Turnbull government will hold a people's vote on same-sex marriage by November, almost certainly in the form of a $122 million postal vote.
The political spotlight will now turn to a group of MPs and whether they will cross the floor.
A refugee in Australia's immigration detention network on Manus Island has died, with local police suggesting the man may have taken his own life.
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