Gay marriage survey, Australia 2017

[parochial boy]

I mean, a higher Yes vote in Qld than NSW is actually kind of hilarious

[parochial boy]

fwiw the notorious Oxley seat has 60.3% Yes

The No seats in Queensland are Katter's seat of Kennedy, the other giant rural seat of Maranoa and narrowly Groom (Toowoomba and its surrounding rural areas).

Isn't Mt Isa famously like 80% male? I would have thought gay marriage would be popular there...

I mean, a higher Yes vote in Qld than NSW is actually kind of hilarious

The true fun is this officially crowns Tasmania and West Australia as the two wokest states.

I guess the argument that legalising gay marriage would lead to legalising incest goes down well in Tasmania?

[parochial boy]

Why the eff is the state that is the home of Sydney has the highest No vote?

Becuase of the conservative non-English speaking background community that live In Western Sydney

Another question, doesn't Melbourne and Sydney have the same proportions of immigrant communities, but Melbourne even in immigrant areas had a higher yes% vote than in Sydney.

Isn't Melbourne generally less "ghettoised" than Sydney?

As in, it is more mixed throughout, as opposed to having places like Cabramatta or Bankstown that have huge concentrations of Vietnamese or Lebanese

[parochial boy]

The fact that turnout was only 50% is Lingiari is probably the key story there