‘If it comes up we’re going to have to try and win it,’ says Ivan Hinton-Teoh from lobby group
just.equal. In an interview with Katharine Murphy and Gabrielle Chan, Hinton-Teoh says the Coalition’s plan for a postal vote on marriage equality has signalled to the LGBTI community: ‘We will only legislate for people other than you.’ With some people calling for a boycott of the vote, he says people should ‘look into their hearts’ and decide whether to take part – but that if it goes ahead he will campaign to win. Hinton-Teoh describes the postal vote plan as ‘an atrocious mechanism’ and that if it happens ‘the Liberal party will own this monstrosity for the rest of the lives’