16 Nov 2017
Vote a 'yes for fairness, commitment, love' - Turnbull
Nearly 13 million people voted in Australia's same-sex postal survey, and 61.6 percent of respondents voted yes, it was revealed on Wednesday. Within hours, the process for a historic vote to make it law was underway in Australia's Federal Parliament. Paul Karp, a Canberra-based political reporter for the Guardian Australia, tells us the final vote was consistent with a number of earlier opinion polls.