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		</div><p>A plan to hold a popular vote on whether Australia should allow same-sex marriage has suffered a setback after a political party announced it would not support the proposed public vote.</p>
<p>The Nick Xenophon Team supports marriage equality, but the party says its senators will not support legislation to authorise the vote, which it says it would effectively become a €107m opinion poll without legal weight.</p>
<p>Even if most Australians voted for same-sex marriage, conservative government lawmakers could still block the reform in parliament, the party said.</p>
<p>Another party that favours gay marriage, the Greens, announced<br />
last week that it would also oppose the vote.</p>
<p>That leaves the opposition centre-left Labor Party as the government&#8217;s only hope of getting the Senate to back a popular vote on same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Labor leader Bill Shorten supports marriage equality but has recently stepped up his attacks on the plebiscite plan.</p>
<p>&#8220;The quickest path to resolving this issue would be a vote in the parliament and that&#8217;s what we will be seeking to do in the coming days and weeks,&#8221; he said</p>
<p>The Nick Xenophon Team and Greens agree with Labor that parliament should decide without waiting for a non-binding popular vote.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should never put questions of human rights to an opinion poll,&#8221; Greens leader Richard Di Natale said.</p>
<p>Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull agreed to hold the plebiscite in a deal with gay marriage opponents within his party. In return, those opponents backed Mr Turnbull in an internal leadership ballot that toppled prime minister Tony Abbott a year ago.</p>
<p>Mr Turnbull, a gay marriage advocate, had previously spoken out against such a public vote that could create painful divisions in Australian society.</p>
<p>Gay marriage lobbyists are generally opposed to the plebiscite, which they argue was initiated by MPs who hope it fails.</p>
<p>Plebiscites and referendums &#8211; legally-binding popular votes &#8211; rarely manage to change the status quo in Australia.</p>
<p>Some marriage equality advocates warn that a lost plebiscite would probably set back their cause for decades.</p>
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