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If you don’t know, vote no

6 September 2017

11:59 AM

6 September 2017

11:59 AM

From its previous decisions, it is possible, indeed probable that the High Court will stop the same-sex marriage plebiscite on the grounds that a proper appropriation was not made by parliament to fund it.

In a case effectively brought by Get Up! on electoral matters in 2010, the High Court unusually gave its decision the day after the hearing ended.

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