Report

Arrangements for the postal survey

13 February 2018

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Membership of the Committee	(PDF 16KB)
Acronyms and abbreviations	(PDF 50KB)
List of Recommendations	(PDF 82KB)
Chapter 1 - Introduction	(PDF 94KB)
Conduct of the inquiry Focus of the committee Structure of the report
Chapter 2 - Process leading to the postal vote	(PDF 226KB)
Introduction Amendments to the Marriage Act in 2004 The origin of the plebiscite Plebiscite to postal survey Funding the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
Chapter 3 - The conduct of the postal survey	(PDF 243KB)
Introduction Precedents for surveys of this kind Timetable of the survey mail-out Accessibility and participation in the survey Scrutiny of the survey Collection and destruction of survey forms
Chapter 4 - Offensive and misleading material	(PDF 247KB)
Introduction Offensive material Marriage Law Survey (Additional Safeguards) Act 2017 Government responses to complaints
Chapter 5 - Conclusions and Recommendations	(PDF 82KB)
Dissenting report by Government Senators	(PDF 208KB)
Introduction The legitimacy and legality of a Postal Survey approach Conclusion
Appendix 1 - Submissions and additional information received by the committee	(PDF 99KB)
Submissions Tabled Documents Additional Information Answers to Questions taken on Notice
Appendix 2 - Public hearings	(PDF 9KB)

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