The same-sex marriage lobby is planning bills for state and territory legislatures, while pressing both the federal Labor Party and Coalition to change their policies on the issue. A New South Wales upper-house inquiry is preparing the way for a state bill. Despite the defeat of such a bill in the Tasmanian upper house, there are plans for an inquiry to find a way around Section 51 of the Commonwealth Constitution, which gives the federal government the “power to make laws for the peace,…
