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Same-sex marriage vote can go ahead, says Australia’s High Court
The High Court has unanimously decided to allow Australians to vote on same-sex marriage.
The postal vote was subject to a legal challenge from LGBT groups who insisted that right-wing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was overreaching his authority.
But this morning, judges snubbed the last-ditch effort to prevent the controversial vote from going ahead.
The government now has the legal backing to spend $122 million of taxpayer money on the postal vote, which is informal, not regulated by law and happening without...
