I wanted to write a few words about the postal survey on marriage law currently underway in Australia.

As an Australian, our country and our government do so many things that make me ashamed; the poverty of our indigenous population, the inhumane treatment of refugees on Manus Island, and the maniacal desire to burn every last ounce of coal in the country, come hell and high water, to name but a few.

It is, quite frankly, overwhelming how institutionally cruel our government, which is after all a representation of the majority of Australians, can be, and nothing has sharpened this meanness to a point than the way the Liberal government have approached this survey.

With everything that is wrong in the world right now; climate change, the threat of nuclear war, and an unqualified narcissist running the White House, voting yes to the survey’s simple question is, quite literally, the smallest thing you could do to bring joy to two people.

So please, when you get your postal survey, vote yes.

Thank you.