There's a human rights issue taking up a lot of Australia's slow bandwidth right now. Like a zombie version of Groundhog Day, the one-eyed, rotting, groaning reanimated corpse of the marriage equality debate has risen again.

Turnbull is the easy-to-blame target in all of this, and he's a well-deserved one, having as much substance as a battered, yellow tin duck getting shot at in an endless cycle of headline-hogging tactics.

The past 24 hours in Australian politics has exasperated, frustrated and hurt people and families, while the politicians continue to fail to do the jobs they were elected to do; enact legislation that represents the will of the voting public and is in the best interests of the populace.

Marriage equality is about uniting families, gaining spouses, and putting parents on an equal footing. No-one loses, and so many people gain, especially children.

This time the process is a postal plebiscite, so don't forget to make sure your voting house is in order. Yeah nah. Why bother, I hear you ask?

It's true that this postal plebiscite is being set up so that the "no" vote is pretty much binding and the "yes" isn't. The process is overwhelmingly likely to end in a wasted sham.

That said, a vote still sends a message, despite this Government managing marriage equality as efficiently as a toddler trying to herd cats into a large box of custard tarts.

It couldn't be a bigger mess. And it's immensely distressing to millions of Australians to see that the Government is so obviously doing it on purpose.

But what is the purpose, Turnbull and co? Marriage equality is inevitable. Right now it's just another embarrassment for Australia on the world stage (along with our woeful treatment of refugees). It would normally be a straightforward parliamentary vote that reflects three quarters of the Australian population's wishes.

Marriage equality is about uniting families, gaining spouses, and putting parents on an equal footing. No-one loses, and so many people gain, especially children.

Ricky Gervais summed it up: "Same sex marriage is not gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes, like churches don't."