Apr 28, 2020 | Latest News
By Mike Hitch – Star Observer The Inner West Council (IWC) has officially taken a stand against the coalition government’s proposed religious discrimination bill after noting the importance of universally accessible healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic....
Apr 27, 2020 | Latest News
By Andrew Koubaridis – The Herald Sun The Australian Christian Lobby has vowed to support and bankroll a disgraced Melbourne doctor who targeted women and gay people in online rants. Conservative doctor Jereth Kok was stripped of his right to practise...
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...