<p>Cheers erupted as a bill to legalise same-sex marriage was passed in the Australian Senate 43 votes to 12 on Wednesday, November 29.</p><p>The bill would then be passed on to the House of Representatives, where an affirmative vote would make same-sex marriage law. The voting followed hours of debate about proposed amendments to the bill, put forward by Senator Dean Smith, but those changes were not successful, news.com.au</a> reported.</p><p>On November 15, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced that Australians had voted in support of same-sex marriage</a> in a postal survey. Credit: Parliament of Australia via Storyful</p><br />
