Shorten shoots down plebiscite
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Bill Shorten has now signalled he will kill the same-sex marriage plebiscite, but he seems determined to make it a slow death.
As Shorten departed on Wednesday for Canada and the United States, Labor sources said he was expected to recommend to caucus that the opposition vote against the legislation to set up the February 11 plebiscite. After...