In the eyes of one Cabinet minister, today’s special Liberal partyroom meeting on same-sex marriage is an exercise in elevating a fifth order issue into a crisis.
Welcome to another day at the office for the Turnbull Government.
The most likely outcome of the meeting is a reaffirmation of a plebiscite, which could morph into a postal vote. That is fraught with problems, some of which were articulated by Malcolm Turnbull in 1997 when the Howard government opted to use the mail to elect delegates to the Constitutional Convention on the Republic.
Then, Mr Turnbull said, the process was designed to disenfranchise migrants, the young, and Indigenous Australians.
“This postal ballot is going to push to the margins of our political society those people who are already on the margins,” he said.
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