Palaszczuk government accepts report into law that enabled Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College to warn teachers they could be fired for being openly homosexual
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The Queensland government will move to scrap a controversial clause that religious bodies have used to justify discrimination against transgender, gay and unmarried people, as part of a large-scale overhaul of the state’s anti-discrimination laws.
On Monday, the state committed to repealing and replacing the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act – legislated by the Goss government in 1991 – before the next election. It accepted “in principle” 122 recommendations that emerged from a 14-month review of the act by the Queensland Human Rights Commission (QHRC).
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