Additional safeguards for Marriage Law Postal Survey

THE Government is honouring its commitment to give the Australian people a say on whether or not the law should be changed to allow same sex couples to marry through the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.

The Government has been exploring in good faith how it can complement existing legal protections under current laws further – principally by ensuring that all of the usual relevant safeguards under our Electoral Laws apply to this process as appropriate.

That is why the Government introduced into the Senate the Marriage Law Survey (Additional Safeguards) Bill 2017, which will provide for those safeguards.