Okay - end of the day for me. What happened?

Australians will have some kind of vote on same-sex marriage by the end of the year;

by the end of the year; the government wants this to take place through a compulsory plebiscite ;

; this legislation - which has already been knocked back once - will be reintroduced to the Parliament tomorrow;

tomorrow; if it is knocked back again the government will ask the Australian Bureau of Statistics to run a postal ballot ;

; this is despite a possible legal challenge to the process;

to the process; but if that comes to nothing and Australians vote 'yes' to a change to the definition of marriage, same-sex marriage could be legal by the end of the year.

My thanks to Alex Ellinghausen and Andrew Meares for their work and to you for reading and commenting.

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Andrew, Alex and I will be back in the morning. We hope to see you then. Until we do, good night.