Australians have voted in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry in a landmark national survey.
The Yes vote triumphed with 61.6 per cent of the vote, while 38.4 per cent voted No.
The AGE says that parliament now has no choice but to do the work it should have done sooner.
It argues that Marriage equality has long been inevitable because it removes an archaic, unconscionable injustice and opposition to marriage equality is rooted in discrimination.
The paper stresses that the bill that should be the basis of the new law is the one drafted by Liberal senator Dean Smith months ago.
Senator James Paterson has dropped a plan to introduce a competing bill to legalise same-sex marriage. The Paterson bill was favoured by conservative Liberals who wanted stronger religious protections.
The age says the Paterson bill was insidiously designed to legalise discrimination and argues that any attempts to conflate marriage equality with parental rights and freedom of religion and expression are dishonest and any such amendments should be rejected.
