Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has launched the council’s campaign in support of same-sex marriage.

September 19, 2017

Sydney residents can expect an invitation to vote ‘yes’ in support of same-sex marriage to land in their letterboxes within days.

The City of Sydney is throwing its support behind marriage equality as millions of Australians cast their votes in a voluntary postal survey.

“This is something where we’re supporting our community,” Lord Mayor Clover Moore told reporters on Tuesday.

“We have a larger number of people who are LGBTI living in our city than any other area – than the whole of Australia.”

Ms Moore urged Sydneysiders and the million visitors to the city each day to back same-sex marriage.

Her call was later echoed at NSW Parliament House when supporters came together at a fundraiser for the ‘yes’ campaign.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian told the gathering from all sides of politics that NSW’s parliament was at its best when party politics was forgotten and members of the house came together on human rights and social justice issues.

“Why should any human being in our state and in our nation be treated differently in front of the law?”

The premier urged her parliamentary colleagues to join “pretty much every other English speaking nation” by voting ‘yes’ for marriage equality.

Around 200 guests, including parliamentary staff, ministers and the leader of the opposition, were at the event.

They were reminded of the LGBTI community’s contributions to Australia by Dame Marie Bashir.

NSW’s first female and longest serving governor said while people had a right to make their own decisions, Australia as a nation rejected marginalisation and exclusion.

“Let’s just get on with making Australia the finest country in the world,” she told AAP.

About 30,000 people marched through Sydney earlier this month in support of same-sex marriage, while skywriters scrawled ‘vote no’ above the city at the weekend