Labor said it should be able to tackle both issues at once, as tensions resurfaced in the Liberal Party over Prime Minister Scott Morrison's plans to revive his contentious religious discrimination bill if the Coalition is re-elected. auspol AusVotes...
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek campaigning in Sydney on Monday.Asked how Labor would approach the matter in government, frontbencher and campaign spokesman Jason Clare said the party had committed to dealing with the issues together by introducing its own religious discrimination bill while amending the Sex Discrimination Act to strengthen protections for LGBTQ students.
“Albo’s already made that commitment,” Clare told the ABC on Monday, adding: “We should be able to tackle both of these problems at once.” But campaigning in Sydney on Monday, Labor’s education spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, declined to lay out a timeframe for how soon Labor would act on its commitment to LGBTQ students.“Any legislation will be done in the normal way,” she said on Monday. “If we form government, we’ll be consulting widely on the legislation. We certainly don’t want to do what Scott Morrison has done, which is divide the nation by introducing this type of legislation.
During the debate on the religious discrimination bill in February, the Labor caucus resolved to back a crossbench amendment to scrap s38 of the Sex Discrimination Act. This provision gives religious schools a legal exemption to discriminate against students on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity – covering both gay and transgender students – including by expelling them.
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