{"id":14018,"date":"2021-11-25T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:23:58","slug":"greens-reject-morrison-discrimination-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/greens-reject-morrison-discrimination-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens reject Morrison discrimination bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have vowed to block Scott Morrison\u2019s religious discrimination bill, saying it was a Trojan horse for hate that went well beyond a shield to protect people with religious beliefs, calling on Labor and Senators to join them in blocking it.<br \/>\n<strong>Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cScott Morrison\u2019s bill means more discrimination, not less.<br \/>\n\u201cScott Morrison has a bill for more discrimination but no bill to stop corruption.<br \/>\n\u201cThe bill overrides State and Territory protections and makes bigoted hate speech legal.<br \/>\n\u201cThe bill goes beyond being a shield. It has many swords and they will do harm.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens call on Labor to block this harmful bill.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens support protections against religious discrimination, which is why Australia needs a charter of rights, but this bill isn\u2019t that.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Australian Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson Senator Janet Rice said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cScott Morrison\u2019s discrimination bill is a Trojan horse for hate.<br \/>\n\u201cAny bill that enables discrimination against LGBTIQA+ people, women, people with disabilities, minority faiths, or First Nations people is unacceptable and must be voted down.<br \/>\n\u201cUnder the guise of faith, bigots would be free to discriminate against people at school and universities, in the workplace, hospitals, restaurants &#8211; anywhere in public life.<br \/>\n\u201cMorrison\u2019s whole schtick is to divide Australians and create problems where none existed.<br \/>\n\u201cMorrison and the Liberals are using culture wars as a distraction so people won\u2019t notice this government has done absolutely nothing to help struggling Australians.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the Liberals are fighting fake cancel culture, the Greens are fighting for what Australians want &#8211; action on climate change, taxing the billionaires, raising income support, getting dental into medicare and laws that protect all of us equally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have vowed to block Scott Morrison\u2019s religious discrimination bill, saying it was a Trojan horse for hate that went well beyond a shield to protect people with religious beliefs, calling on Labor and Senators to join them in blocking it. Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said: \u201cScott Morrison\u2019s bill means &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/greens-reject-morrison-discrimination-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens reject Morrison discrimination bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}