User blog comment:Agattert/Same Sex Marriage at long last/@comment-25263388-20150627003534/@comment-25263388-20150627005249

New Zealand and Australia are in no way the same. New Zealand is one of the two politically revolutionary countries, the other being Canada, first to legalise a lot. Women's rights, racial rights, homosexual rights, they both have it first or second. Kinda like Queensland is to the rest of Australia

On a note to continue surrounding my confusion to your legal system, all laws the Commonwealth (central, federal Parliament) make are binding upon all states and territories, but our Constitution provides them with powers only in certain areas, the rest of the powers falling to the states/territories. Cth has marriage legislation. Further, it is suggested that the definition of marriage as man and woman be incorporated into the Constitution, which would make it nigh on impossible to give homosexual marriage rights