If Tony Abbott is, in some people's eyes, the villain in the fight for marriage equality, then a hero could be needed. So how would Australia's Prime Minister stack up against comicbook superhero Wonder Woman? 
Australian illustrator Jason Badower, who works in Hollywood, was one of several artists invited by DC comics to write and draw an issue of iconic Wonder Woman publication Sensation Comics.
Badower, who studied multi-media design at Melbourne's Holmesglen TAFE, wrote and drew a story based on Russian conflict with Ukraine. It contains a page featuring Wonder Woman officiating at a gay wedding of two women, one a close friend.
In it, Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent asks Wonder Woman about being a "proponent of gay marriage", to which she replied "Clark, my country is all women. To us it's not gay marriage, it's just marriage".
The main story and the subplot were Badower ideas, the latter inspired by recent events in the gay marriage struggle in the United States and Australia. In   June a 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court decided that state bans on same-sex weddings were unconstitutional. But this month our Prime Minister effectively blocked a conscience vote in his own party.
So does Abbott have something to learn from Wonder Woman? "We all have something to learn from Wonder Woman, some people more than others," Badower, 40, said.
DC comics was "fantastic" about the subplot, Badower said. His editor, Kristy Quinn, "was like, 'Great, I love it! Let's do it.' It was almost anti-climactic."
But why should anyone care what a cartoon character thinks or does?
"Wonder Woman is such a recognised icon she's like an international diplomat," Badower said.
"When she says, 'This is what I do and it's no big deal to me' she can pave the way to make [gay marriage] more normal for everybody.
"Popular culture reflects who we are but it can reflect who we want to be. I think superheroes are who we want to be. Marvel are who we are but DC is who we want to be."
Jason Badower's issue of "Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman" (issue no. 48) is out but not in print until   November.
Badower, who works on storylines and illustrations in advertising and marketing for big movies, made the initial design for the poster of 2013 film Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
"Then they got Jennifer Lawrence to come and strike that pose [the final poster]."