Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are to be placed under renewed pressure to support gay marriage rights with the Greens intent on making the popular reform a key election issue.
The party also wants to test Mr Abbott’s assertion during a 60 Minutes interview last Sunday that he separates his Christian faith from his policy decisions.
Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt has secured debating time in the House of Representatives next Monday for his bill establishing equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.
The bill aims to remove references to the definition of marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman but would not require churches to perform same-sex marriages unless they wanted to.