The crowd,which ranged from children and teenagers through to the original 78ers who protested for gay rights in 1978,waved placards such as “Pray the hate away” and “Homos against Scomo”.
If the ship is sinking,MPs pump air into the life jackets of their individual electorates,even if it’s taking oxygen from the Prime Minister.
Faith communities are bewildered at the fate of long-promised laws to prevent religious discrimination. It didn’t have to be this way.
A veteran Liberal says he was in the room when moderate MPs misled Scott Morrison about their intentions to cross the floor to prevent schools expelling transgender students.
The Coalition’s flawed bill got the balance wrong between protecting religious belief and protecting others from religious bigotry but that does not mean legislation is not needed.
Debate over religious freedom has raised questions about how single-sex schools respond to transgender students,but there are few answers.
The federal shadow assistant treasurer reflects on his speech to Parliament amid the religious discrimination debate. “The fears I hold for Paddy are exactly the same as for the parents of a Muslim child who worry every time their daughter walks to the corner shop wearing a hijab.”
You can spend time thinking about things when you sit on a porch cleaning your boots. And sometimes you don’t want to think about much at all.
After video of a Muslim student defying Hindu nationalists near her school went viral,even Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai weighed in.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has accused members of the Liberal Party of misleading the Prime Minister on the Religious Discrimination Act.
Two years after US President Joe Biden declared transgender equality the “civil rights issue of our time”,the issue is now at the centre of Australian politics.