 The words in Section 46 (1) have been seen as a description or exhortation rather than a legal definition.In August 2004, the Howard Government introduced a bill to insert a definition of marriage in the Interpretation section (Section 5) of the Act; as "the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life".The bill also inserted a new provision in the Act (Section 88EA) which stipulated that any foreign marriages of same-sex couples "must not be recognised as a marriage in Australia".