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Legislating against discrimination in religious schools is harder than you think

By Anja Hilkemeijer

With anti-discrimination law as complex as Australia’s, our lawmakers must be scrupulous with how anti-discrimination legislation is designed, or risk stigmatising our young LGBTIQ+ people.

“Think of the children!” – A dangerous rhetorical strategy

By Jay Daniel Thompson

In August 2017, mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest was riled by the Australian Greens’ opposition to the cashless debit card system that’s been proposed for remote Indigenous communities. Forrest was quoted as saying that the party’s stance on this issue made them the “party for paedophiles”. Rewind twelve months. Throughout 2016, the Safe Schools Coalition […]

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