(DAILY MAIL) Australia's parliament late Monday rejected the government's proposal for a national vote on whether to legalise same-sex marriage.
The upper house Senate voted 33-29 against the coalition government's bid to hold a plebiscite on the issue.
Attorney-General George Brandis introduced the bill into the Senate, where the government does not hold an outright majority, despite expectation the opposition Labor and Greens parties would scupper it.