Liberal senator Dean Smith is speaking: "This is a great win for Australian values.The survey said a lot about people's attitudes to same-sex marriage, it said a lot about their attitudes about Australian values and how they should be applied in a contemporary way. I am proud to be a parliamentarian, I have always wanted to be a parliamentarian. Even when I was that nerdy kid at school."

"People can be proud that over the last few weeks, they have seen the best of their Parliament, the best of their parliamentarians, as I said before, the real challenge going forward is to think about how we can do this more often, how we can do this more often, how we can put the politics of partisanship aside."

"I would like to dedicate the day's win to a special group of people, and that is to those young LGBTQI Australians, who in their workplace or in their school yard, find life a little tough. Let me tell you, 'you are OK, it will all be OK, and this is a great country to grow up and be an LGBTQI Australian'."