PLEBISCITE SUPPORT NOT THAT STRONG, SARAH

WITH reference to the article ( GA, 23/7) regarding Sarah Henderson and me calling her to act on her support for marriage equality, I hereby dispute her Newspoll figures of 49 per cent support for a plebiscite.

A recent Galaxy poll showed about the same figure for support but when respondents were told the plebiscite would cost $160 million it dropped to 35 per cent and when told the plebiscite would not be binding it dropped again to 27 per cent.

This was before discussion about a postal plebiscite.

One would ask why not a postal plebiscite on euthanasia, or abortion or any other issue the Government cannot make up its mind on.

Let’s not forget that Peter Dutton’s postal plebiscite is not really a plebiscite but a postal survey which would be open to tampering, to lost postal votes (eg the last election when so many postal votes were lost in Western Australia) and not to mention the postal votes would not be scrutinised as in a normal election.

The whole thing stinks of corruption and dereliction of duty.

Also where would the money come from for a postal plebiscite when the money in the current bud- get is for a plebiscite not a postal one, this would also need to be addressed.

The Parliament needs to just get on and do its job.

It is no one’s business but their own who people choose to marry. Sharyn Faulkner, Belmont