We're keeping the up pressure on parliament to vote down a plebiscite with the release of videoed interviews highlighting the true cost of the 2015 Irish marriage equality referendum.

A Hobart man who was not recognised as his late partner's next of kin has vowed to continue his anti-discrimination case after the Coroner finally accepted he was wrongly treated.

Our focus will move to defeating the proposed marriage equality plebiscite in the Senate after it passed the Lower House today.

LGBTI advocacy group, just.equal, has welcomed the latest Essential Poll showing a majority of Australians want the Government to allow a vote on marriage equality in Parliament rather than continue with its proposed plebiscite.

Today we presented the largest thank you card ever delivered to Parliament House, presented to politicians across the political spectrum who have vowed to block a marriage equality plebiscite. 

Marriage equality advocates who have campaigned against a plebiscite and for a free vote are elated that Labor says it will vote to block a plebiscite on the issue.

Advocates have urged marriage equality supporters not to be complacent about the defeat of the Government's proposed plebiscite and to continue to speak out against it.

We have renewed our calls to ditch the proposed marriage equality plebiscite after the breakdown today of negotiations between the Government and Labor about details of the Government's plebiscite bill.