Australians to get vote on accepting same-sex marriage, PM says

Australia could legalize same-sex marriage by as early as the end of this year, after the government announced an attempt to hold a national vote on the issue.

"I'll be voting yes, as will (my wife), I'm very open about that but the Australian people are never wrong when they vote, whether it's for governments or on matters like this, their vote will be respected," Turnbull said.

"Labor, Green (and) some of the independent senators, as well, have given no signs they've changed their mind on it," John Warhurst, emeritus professor at Australian National University's School of Politics and International Relations, told CNN Monday.

"The issue is can the government pay for a postal plebiscite in a constitutionally valid way, and I think there's serious questions about whether it can do that," Paul Kildea, director of the Referendums Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, told CNN.

"The Coalition supports the traditional definition of marriage between a man and a woman, but we won't seek to bind people beyond this term of Parliament and in the next term... it will be the people's decision," Abbott said at the time.

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