The Attorney-General asked for a review of the state's 30-year-old anti-discrimination laws. The Queensland Human Rights Commission has gone much further in recommending they be scrapped entirely in favour of new legislation.
abc.net.au/news/qld-anti-discrimination-laws-should-be-scrapped-report-says/101389646The Queensland government is being urged to overhaul the state's 30-year-old anti-discrimination laws and start afresh, in a review tabled in parliament today.
"Nothing in their deliberate conduct should be incompatible with the intrinsic character of their position, especially, but not only, in relation to the expression of human sexuality through heterosexual, monogamous relationship, expressed intimately through marriage," the employment material stated.Ms McDonald was stunned to see the demand spelled out in writing and didn't apply for the job.
Schools such as Citipointe Christian College can discriminate in student enrolment on religious grounds. But he said this had remained largely unchallenged because LGBTQI+ teachers have been scared to bring their complaints to the QHRC."It's an individual against the institution and to be able to do that does require courage. It also requires resources, frankly," Mr Burke said.
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