Bill
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-11-25
- second reading — 2021-11-25
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2022-02-08
- second reading — 2022-02-09
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- committee — 2022-02-10
- third reading — 2022-02-10
- introduced — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
- Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Teachers — 2022-02-09, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 70, noes 8
- Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Students — 2022-02-09, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 59, noes 65
- Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Students — 2022-02-09, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 65, noes 60
- Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with amended bill — 2022-02-09, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 65, noes 60
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2021-11-25.
The bill would change how anti-discrimination laws refer to human rights.
It would amend objects clauses in several Acts to reflect the equal status of all human rights, including freedom of religion.
The bill would also clarify that religious schools may refuse to provide marriage-related goods, services or facilities.
- Amends objects clauses in the Age Discrimination Act, Disability Discrimination Act, Sex Discrimination Act and introduces one into the Racial Discrimination Act.
- Amends the Charities Act to clarify that advocating marriage as between a man and a woman is not a disqualifying purpose.
- Amends the Marriage Act to extend the exemption for religious bodies to refuse goods, services or facilities for marriage to religious educational institutions.
Commonwealth, state and territory governments, religious educational institutions, and bodies established for religious purposes.
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