The alarming Religious Discrimination Bill being proposed

Friday, 31 January 2020 - 10:00am to 10:30am

If passed by Parliament, the Religious Discrimination Bill would privilege concerns about religious discrimination over concerns about other forms of discrimination, for example against women, people with disabilities, and gay people. It would 'sustain nastiness and hostility that [Australia] can well do without', [former high court justice Michael Kirby] with provisions that 'appear to be motivated by a desire to allow people to be nasty to others' [Professor of constitutional law, Luke Beck]. The Pentecostalist beliefs of our PM and conservative religious beliefs of other Federal Ministers seem to be inappropriately influential in putting forward such a Bill.

Friday 10:00am to 10:30am
Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.

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Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet

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