This puff piece sounds as if these Australian politicos are taking some “courageous” stand for homosexual marriage.
In today’s world, the true courage is being against homosexual marriage.
See what happens to any prominent public figure in this day and age, who would stand for traditional marriage. It doesn’t happen.
Sadly to me, the liberals have won the battle over homosexual marriage. Now they have moved the goal posts, and we get to move on to transgender bathroom and baking gay wedding cakes as major issues.
The goal posts are going to be moved even further than you suggest. Lowering the age of consent to 10 or 12 will be next, in essence eliminated most laws against pedophilia.
And for those who oppose lower the age will be called
pedophilephobic.
Because they made it cool to be queer and that thinking otherwise is “hate”.
If you oppose gay marriage, the soft dictatorship moves in on you.
You lose your job like the elected Chief Justice and soon to be next US Senator from Alabama, Roy Moore.
As it happens, quite a few members of the conservative coalition parties (Liberal and National Parties) in Australia are doing just that. So a few members of the socialist Labor party. They are being attacked in some quarters but it's reasonably restrained at present - and the people who are attacking them don't like them anyway.