The Liberals and Nationals for Marriage campaign is run by a former Liberal National Party (LNP) Senate candidate who is currently suspended from the party for criticising prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Facebook.



The Liberals and Nationals for Marriage website and Facebook page, urging party supporters to vote "no" in Australia's postal survey on same-sex marriage, was started earlier this week by married couple David and Belinda Goodwin.

The Courier Mail reported in July that Mr Goodwin had been formally suspended for one year in May after calling for Turnbull to be dumped and replaced with deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce in a post on his private Facebook page.



Goodwin, who was fourth on the LNP Queensland Senate ticket at the 2013 federal election, said he doesn't think it matters that a suspended member is running a campaign on behalf of his party.

"I don’t think it affects anything," he told BuzzFeed News. "I’m a grassroots guy, I’m a member of the party, I may have a suspended status around certain things.

"My wife’s a full member, not suspended."