The Australian Law Reform Commission\u2019s review into religious educational institutions and anti-discrimination laws will be tabled in Parliament this week ahead of Labor\u2019s Religious Discrimination Bill anticipated to be tabled in the coming months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mere debate around Scott Morrison\u2019s 2018 bill gave far right activists licence to peddle anti-LGBTIQA+ hate in our media and community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens will be carefully considering the report and Labor\u2019s bill when it\u2019s tabled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen Bates MP, Australian Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve been through this already in 2018 when Scott Morrison\u2019s bill unleashed a torrent of LGBTIQA+ hate in our political system, our media and our community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anti-discrimination laws can\u2019t be a trojan horse for other kinds of discrimination. Right now, religious institutions running schools, aged care, disability services, social housing and hospitals deny people of their rights to be themselves or access to services they\u2019re entitled to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last time, Labor stopped short of extending protections to LGBTIQA+ staff. The LGBTIQA+ community should not have to wait their turn when it comes to anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can\u2019t afford this debate to act as cover for more hate and division in our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We want to work with Labor over the next few months to get the laws right to make sure people are free to practise their faith without discrimination and that people who rely on religious institutions for employment, social services or community aren\u2019t discriminated against either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Penny Allman-Payne, Australian Greens schools spokesperson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia’s fee-charging private schools received $20 billion in combined government funding in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why should private religious institutions subsidised from the public purse be exempted from the rules that apply to public schools?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our kids deserve an enriching school experience that exposes them to the full diversity of Australian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Allowing some of the most privileged schools in the country to discriminate against staff on the grounds of their gender or sexual orientation perpetuates prejudice and division and must be consigned to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Law Reform Commission\u2019s review into religious educational institutions and anti-discrimination laws will be tabled in Parliament this week ahead of Labor\u2019s Religious Discrimination Bill anticipated to be tabled in the coming months. The mere debate around Scott Morrison\u2019s 2018 bill gave far right activists licence to peddle anti-LGBTIQA+ hate in our media and … Continue reading “RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION REVIEW CAN’T BE A TROJAN HORSE FOR HATE”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775","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=25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25776,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions\/25776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}