Man, what a pack of muppets:
Scott Morrison will freeze debate in the Senate on Labor’s contentious Sex Discrimination Act amendment after receiving legal advice that the changes will increase the risk of discrimination in schools.
The Australian Government Solicitor has provided advice that changes to section 37 in the SDA, which passed the lower house on Thursday morning, could fuel discrimination against children.
The advice warns of unintended consequences which could allow single sex schools to discriminate against a trans student because of their gender. The positive discrimination risk could extend to decisions made on the basis of sex, intersex and even breastfeeding mothers. The AGS says the changes would inadvertently enable religious schools to now discriminate on the basis of a student’s sex, intersex status and breastfeeding, which are currently protected attributes.
There are concerns the amendments could give trans students more protection than students who are male or female.
Let’s bury it in an inquiry!
The federal government will push for a Senate inquiry into key parts of its religious discrimination bills in a decision that avoids a vote in the upper house on the package, with Attorney-General Michaelia Cash producing legal advice to urge more time to look into the treatment of transgender students.
What kind of spastic government sits on lynch mob legislation like this for three years then, as its woes mount, springs it on the opposition months out from an election as its great tactical play, without even understanding that its own side is against it?
This is beyond inept.
It is “psycho”.
