Dec 5, 2021 | Latest News
By Paul Karp, The Guardian Parliament has adjourned for the year, with a whimper and not a bang, after the Morrison government shelved its controversial religious discrimination and national integrity commission bills. In a last-minute bid to win support for the...
Dec 4, 2021 | Latest News
By Sarah Martin, The Guardian The Morrison government has struck a deal with some moderate Liberal MPs to support its contentious religious discrimination bill, agreeing to make immediate changes to protect gay students from discrimination in religious schools. But...
Dec 2, 2021 | Latest News
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers have teamed-up in an attempt to delay Scott Morrison’s religious discrimination bill and leave the government only two days in March next year to pass protections for faith groups and individuals....
Dec 1, 2021 | Latest News
By Emma Myers, ABC People with disability often experience ridicule, offensive assumptions, bias and intimidation. It does not matter whether this arises from hate, prejudice, misguided assumptions and attitudes towards disability — or one person’s...
Dec 1, 2021 | Latest News
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian Scott Morrison has promised moderate Liberals he will fast-track separate protections for gay students ahead of bringing on a vote on the religious discrimination bill and ramping-up pressure on Anthony Albanese to back the...
Nov 30, 2021 | Latest News
By Courtney Gould, The Australian The timing of an inquiry into the government’s contentious religious freedom bill has been called into question after public hearings were listed to occur over the holiday period. A joint parliamentary review into the proposal was...