Lobby or litigate
Ian Carmichael / 17th August 2004
Yet another threat to take a matter of public debate to the High Court (see Funding Challenge).
According to a report in The Australian, a homosexual rights group are investigating the option of a Constitutional challenge to the new definition of marriage being between a man and a woman for life.
The Australian Constitution gives the right to legislate in respect to “marriage” to the Federal Parliament, so you would think that constitutionally the new Act would be on fairly solid ground.
It seems like a vital part of the P.R. game is to show how unjustly you are being treated by threatening a constitutional challenge, no matter how weak your potential case might be.