People who vilified the LGBTI community during last year's postal survey on same-sex marriage could soon be sued for it.



When former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull resigned from parliament this week following last week's leadership spill, he named same-sex marriage as his number one achievement. Although same-sex marriage is now the law of the land in Australia, many people still remember the coarser aspects of the public debate on other people's relationships during the postal survey, and how it made them feel.

Now the LGBTI Legal Service is launching action in the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission to attempt to get 25 of those who made hate-filled or vilifying comments to apologise, remove the comments from social media, or potentially face further legal action.

BuzzFeed News reported on some of the more extreme examples of vilification faced by Australia's LGBTI community during the postal survey, and LGBTI Legal Service had funding from the Queensland state government to collect some of the worst of the worst, picking up 220 examples of hate speech, from posts on social media to neo-Nazi posters.