A campaign conducted over a number of years by members of the Greens Party and the homosexual lobby to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, has been convincingly defeated.
Both houses of federal parliament — and, more recently, the Tasmanian parliament — have rejected moves to redefine marriage.
Since Australia was established as a nation over a century ago, marriage in Australian law has been understood as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all ot…
