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People are behind this. they want an opportunity to follow the 20 or so, 20 plus countries who have gone along with this. awe heard there from piers ackerman. the irish referendum the catalyst for this. we'll see what happens. watching it very closely. >> all right. still to come here on "cnn newsroom" -- bad weather, forces a solar powered plane to make an unplanned stop. that after this.

Want to bring in piers ackerman, national columnist with "the daily telegraph" he joins me live via skype from canaberra. as we explained, australia's opposition leader, bill shorten, introduced the bill into parliament monday. aiming to legalize same-sex marriage and pressure tony abbt to allow a conscience vote on the issue. why not let that go ahead? seems fairly straight forward? >> well there are a couple things. basic politics, rosemary. the coalition government hasn't had a parliamentary meeting on thisser to for a number of years. it was defeated three years ago. under the labor govern...

I think that the coalition and indeed a fair number of australian people would prefer to -- [ indiscernible ] rather than leave it to parliament. that is to have a -- [ indiscernible ] >> all right. we were having problems. let's just, all right. we're having problems there. pichlt piers ackerman, joining us from australia. we know that tony abbt, the prime minister said there were so many other important issues. and doesn't want to go forward on this. but we can expect in the next few months this bill will go to a vote. as the it stand along lines, the labor party would not pass this. have to...