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Of a turnout of 79.5% of eligible Australians, 61.6% said 'Yes' to the question of whether the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry.
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Sam Roggeveen
Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (Opens in new window), published by La Trobe University Press in 2023.
This morning the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the results of the same-sex marriage survey conducted earlier this year – of a 79.5% turnout of eligible Australians, 61.6% said 'Yes' to the question of whether the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry.
In this Quick Comment podcast, the Lowy Institute's Executive Director Michael Fullilove, Research Associate Bonnie Bley and I discussed the result and what it means for Australia's place in the world and its international reputation.
Sam Roggeveen