The Informer

3 Oct 2016

Discrimination and Anti-Equality in TAS and WA

Government & Organisations, News & Politics

The 2016 Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill is due to be voted on later this week.  It has been slammed by the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights group, as well as Tasmania’s own Anti-Discrimination commissioner Robin Banks.

Banks was not shown the proposed legislation before it was made public in August.

We speak with Robin Banks and Nicholas Stewart, co-chair of Australian Lawyers for Human Right’s LGBTI Rights subcommittee.

And LGBTIQ people attending the Royal Perth Show last week were distressed to find large anti-equality stickers had been put up on road-signs around the event.

Greens Senator Rachel Siewart joins the program to discuss.

Tasmanian Attorney General Dr Vanessa Goodwin was not available for comment.

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