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Business Matters: Australians Decisively Back Gay Marriage

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Australians Decisively Back Gay Marriage

15/11/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Australians Decisively Back Gay Marriage

The historic vote showed 61.6% of people favour allowing same-sex couples to wed

Australians have voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in a historic non-binding poll.
The vote showed 61.6% of people favour allowing same-sex couples to wed, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.
Phil Mercer brings us the latest live from Sydney. 

Also on the programme, uncertainty in Zimbabwe as the military take to the streets after a week of political manoeuvreing in the ruling Zanu PF party. We speak to Miles Tendi from Oxford University.

Could ride-hailing service Lyft be set to rival Uber around the World as it begins to expand outside the US? And, are Americans really going off fizzy drinks? Sara Bleich of the Harvard School of Public Health has done the research that suggests so. 

Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme from Austin, Texas, by Andy Uhler of the Marketplace programme on American Public Radio, and from Singapore by David Kuo of Motley Fool. 
They'll also be joined from Kolkata by the BBC's Rahul Tandon. 

Picture: Australians celebrate vote in favour of legalising same sex marriage (credit: Getty Images).

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