Rules against malicious campaign material will not apply to same-sex marriage postal vote

By Michael Koziol
Updated August 10 2017 - 8:13am, first published 8:09am
Senator Penny Wong during the vote that defeated the attempt to restore the Same-sex Marriage Plebiscite Bill to the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 9 August 2017. Fedpol. Photo: Andrew Meares
Senator Penny Wong during the vote that defeated the attempt to restore the Same-sex Marriage Plebiscite Bill to the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 9 August 2017. Fedpol. Photo: Andrew Meares

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.

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