Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes may now call California home, but he makes sure to keep up to date with what’s happening in his homeland. You may recall the awesome burn he unleashed on former PM Tony Abbott last year.

After Abbott revealed he enjoyed listening to the music of Savage Garden, Hayes bit back via Twitter, writing “I certainly do not listen to Tony Abbott.” He later explained that he didn’t covet the endorsement of someone who doesn’t “speak in the language of equality”.

It’s equality that was the topic at hand for Hayes’ latest correspondence with a Prime Minister. As News Corp reports, Hayes recently took to Facebook and in what has now become a viral post, urged current PM Malcolm Turnbull to get on the right side of history.

Hayes opens by reminding the PM that the majority of Australians are already in favour of marriage equality, calling the PM’s plebiscite a waste of “160 million hard earned Australian tax dollars” that could be spent on mental health care for the LGBTQI community.

The singer writes that the community is home to many who are “depressed or suicidal as a result of living in a world where they are considered second class citizens”, including at one point Hayes himself who only recently found catharsis.

In the letter, which has garnered more than a thousand likes and more than 300 shares on Facebook and which you can view in full below, Hayes recounts how his marriage to partner Richard Cullen saved his life after living in a time where being gay “felt like a death sentence”.

“I was bullied, I was tormented and eventually I convinced myself the person my mother gave birth to was something to be ashamed of,” Hayes writes. “I buried my sense of self and in turn developed a sense of self-hatred and shame that almost cost me my life.”

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“As a gay Australian who has proudly represented his country globally, it saddens me that my marriage is recognised both in the United Kingdom and in the United States but means nothing in my country of birth.”

“I wish I could use my good fortune and the attention my career has given me to be an example of hope for young LGBT Australian youth. Instead, the message my marriage and my coming out sends LGBT Australians is — if you want to be equal you’ll need to live in another country. That is not a message I want to send.”

Read the entire thing below or via Hayes’ official Facebook page.

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