Bill
Sex Discrimination Amendment (Removing Discrimination Against Students) Bill 2018 [No. 2]
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. (s) SHORTEN, Bill, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Bill Shorten
- Portfolio
- (s) SHORTEN, Bill, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-12-03
- second reading — 2018-12-03
- other — 2019-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-12-03.
This bill would stop religious schools from treating students differently because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.
It would remove existing exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 that currently allow those schools to discriminate on those grounds.
The bill would not change how the Act handles indirect discrimination, so faith-based schools could still impose reasonable conditions based on their religious doctrines.
- Removes exemptions from the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 that let religious schools discriminate against students on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.
- Leaves the indirect discrimination provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 unchanged.
- Does not address discrimination against staff employed by religious schools.
Students attending religious schools in Australia.
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