Removing the outdated 'disadvantage test' for sexual harassment complaints and improving protections for LGBTIQA+ staff and students in religious schools will be among sweeping reforms to Western Australia's anti-discrimination laws.
The review recommends that "it ought not be incumbent on the harassed person to navigate complex legal arguments to satisfy the disadvantage requirement".
Attorney General John Quigley said WA's anti-discrimination laws, introduced in 1984, had fallen behind most other states and territories.
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