A number of politicians, public figures, media outlets, businesses and other organisations endorsed voting either in favour or against same-sex marriage during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.

"Yes" campaign Lead lobby groups Australian Marriage Equality – The leading lobby group for same-sex marriage in Australia, running under the banner of the Equality Campaign, announced at a press conference on 11 August that, if the legal challenge to the survey is unsuccessful, "we have a duty to every Aussie who supports fairness and equality to try to win it. We are in this to win this". GetUp! – The left-leaning activist group announced it would "engage in a campaign to win a Yes result...to deliver...the fairer and more equal country we believe in".

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Religious groups Religious groups who advocate a "yes" vote include: Australian Council of Hindu Clergy Buddhism Australia Pitt Street Uniting Church Quakers Australia Rabbinic Council of the Union for Progressive Judaism St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne

Denomination leaders who advocate a "yes" vote include: Frank Brennan, Catholic priest Kay Goldsworthy, the Anglican Archbishop of Perth

Prior to the postal survey, over 500 Australian faith leaders signed a joint letter asking the Australian Government to enact same-sex marriage. Leaders signing were Anglican, Catholic, Uniting Church, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish and Muslim.

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Others Fitzy and Wippa, radio show Kath and Kim, television comedy Kinky Boots Australia, musical RuPaul's Drag Race, US reality competition series Wicked Australia & NZ, musical Will & Grace, US sitcom

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Some of the "largest LGBTI demonstrations in Australian history" occurred in the lead-up to the postal survey in various cities. On 27 August, approximately 20,000 people attended a rally in Melbourne calling on the government to legalise same-sex marriage, whilst on 10 September more than 30,000 people gathered in Sydney's CBD supporting a "Yes" vote in the survey.

"No" campaign Lead lobby groups Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (ACBC) has said, "Vote No, to keep marriage as a unique relationship between a woman and a man . . . the consequences of changing marriage are very real". Coalition for Marriage, a body formed by several groups opposed to same-sex marriage to co-ordinate a "No" campaign. Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) advocates a "No" vote, in-part, because of the perceived implications for children. Marriage Alliance states that it wants to respect same-sex attracted people but does not want to change the current definition of marriage. FamilyVoice Australia which advocates Voting No for freedom and for children.

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Roger Corbett, former CEO of Woolworths Limited and former chairman of Fairfax Media Kevin Donnelly, Australian educator, author and commentator Miranda Devine, Conservative columnist David Flint, legal academic Israel Folau, rugby union player Ashley Goldsworthy, Australian computer scientist and business executive Lyle Shelton, managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby Karina Okotel, federal vice president of the Liberal Party. Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right political commentator, polemicist, public speaker and writer

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Organisations and agencies Antipodean Resistance, Neo-Nazi and fascist group United Patriots Front, far-right nationalist anti-Islam organisation

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Neutral Organisations and agencies Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Australia Post Deloitte Access Economics Holden Optus REA Group The Salvation Army

Sports groups and organisations Australian Olympic Committee Carlton Football Club Fremantle Football Club Hawthorn Football Club Swimming Australia West Coast Eagles

State and local governments City of Brisbane

Political parties Jacqui Lambie Network Liberal Party of Australia Pauline Hanson's One Nation

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