Slovenia's left-leaning parliament introduced marriage equality in March, but opponents pushed through a popular vote on the issue.
Whilst no official legislation has been brought forward in parliament to introduce marriage for gay and bisexual couples, the court ruling represents a precedent which will require courts throughout the country to follow suit.
Even in the early 1990s, it would have been impossible to imagine that (when the votes are counted on Saturday) Catholic Ireland just might become the first country in the world to introduce marriage equality by popular ballot.
His climate policy and marriage equality plans are deliberately opaque to disguise unresolved conflicts with the Coalition conservatives; by his own admission, Turnbull would prefer a parliamentary vote to introduce marriage equality (the policy of both Labor and the Greens) but he took the leadership with an internal agreement to keep Abbott's unnecessary and expensive plebiscite.
Macklin said the Labor party, which has proposed to scrap the plebiscite and introduce marriage equality laws by way of parliamentary vote within its first 100 days of government, if elected, was concerned about the damage a divisive public debate could cause.
The Tory-led coalition introduced marriage for same-sex partners.
Harris has twice before introduced marriage equality bills in Illinois and previously said that the passage of such legislation was "not going to happen quickly".
Meanwhile, both Labor and the Greens will introduce marriage equality legislation into Parliament in a bid to avoid a plebiscite, which they argue would be costly and ideologically divisive (see: Bill Leak).
It also calls on the government to launch a national awareness campaign against child marriage, introduce compulsory marriage registration for all religions, improve efforts to expand birth registration and investigate system abuses, and tackle the drivers of child marriage by, for example, minimising school costs.
Mr Bush wants to encourage family formation by doubling the child tax credit and removing the marriage penalty or even introducing a marriage bonus.
