Beware Australia’s federal parliamentarians! The historians of the future are watching you.

As the nation’s representatives gather in the nation’s capital over the next weeks to debate the marriage equality bill that our Prime Minister promises us will be law by Christmas, they should take heed: the words they utter will matter.  The way they shape their arguments will matter. Their choice of analogy, metaphor and syntax will matter. The bogeymen or disaster scenarios they concoct to prophesise doom will matter.