Mar 23, 2020 | Latest News
By Rodney Croome – Opinion – The Examiner In the mid 1990s, Tasmania’s Liberals screamed “state rights” when Canberra moved to override our law criminalising homosexuality. Tasmanian Premier, Ray Groom, blasted Canberra...
Mar 16, 2020 | Latest News
By Andrew Taylor – The Age Legal experts have warned that LGBTQ people in aged care facilities will be at risk of ridicule, humiliation and intimidation under the federal government’s religious discrimination bill. Luke Beck, associate professor of...
Mar 11, 2020 | Latest News
By Philip Freier – The Age Few issues have so divided Australians in the past couple of years as the federal government’s promise to enact religious freedom legislation, not least because the farther edges of its advocates and opponents distrust each other so...
Mar 9, 2020 | Latest News
Born out of the contentious debate over same-sex marriage, the religious discrimination bill was always going to attract its fair share of attention. The Morrison government has now released two drafts of the bill and, based on the response from a broad array of...
Mar 4, 2020 | Latest News
By Anthony Colangelo – SMH Australia’s biggest sporting bodies – including the AFL, NRL, FFA and Cricket Australia – have written a scathing response to the federal government’s proposed religious freedom bill. The Coalition of Major Professional...
Mar 2, 2020 | Latest News
By Beth Gaze – SMH The religious discrimination bill has had plenty of attention in the past few months. It was first released for public comment in August 2019, and a redrafted version was released in December. This second draft strengthens the protection for...
