The yes vote succeeds

So the plebiscite has been decided with the yes camp winning the popular vote 59% to 41% The Parliament has been given the mandate to push the legislation through the lower house without any hindrance with the bill to then likely to pass through the Senate without any obstruction.

The people of Australia have returned their survey questionnaires, it wasn't a vote apparently hence the Bureau of Statistics managing the process but it offered a pretty good indication of what people wanted. The survey asked a simple question leaving either a yes or no box to tick and a return postage envelope for the response. More than 80% of survey forms were returned offering a definitive answer - the yes vote wins. So we are going to have same sex marriage legislated in Australia probably before Christmas.