Australia is in the midst of a Marriage Equality postal survey – asking the whole of Australia their opinion about whether people of the same sex are allowed to love each other. The Left and other civil rights activists are mobilising our forces to pull out a Yes vote, so the campaign is on!

As would be expected, the campaign has been attacked by the right, but there are also some criticisms of the yes campaign that come from the left. Questions about the lack of intersectionality, whether this fight is just about white queer people’s rights, and the possibility that other important social justice issues have been sidelined in this campaign.

Despite the problems with the yes campaign, we are still calling for people to vote and to vote yes. But it’s important to air the left-wing criticisms of the yes campaign. So today’s program does this with guests Fatima Mawas, a young muslim film maker from Western Sydney and now based in Melbourne, Australia. And Wil Stracke the campaigns industrial officer at Victorian Trades Hall Council, who has been spearheading much of the yes campaign in this state.