'Risky', 'unrealistic': MPs hit back at call to ditch religious discrimination bill | CanberraCamper
Coalition MPs and church leaders have dismissed a call for the government's religious discrimination bill to be scrapped, with the chair of the committee set to review it warning "we should not let perfect be the enemy of the good".because it was too "flawed" and religious leaders continued to raise "serious concerns".
Victorian Liberal and free speech advocate James Paterson said he was "completely opposed to abandoning an almost complete religious freedom process in favour of a wildly ambitious and risky project to consolidate all anti-discrimination law".
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