Tasmania blood inquiry to go ahead
Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Tribunal will investigate the Australian Red Cross Blood Service’s ban on blood donations from gay men who have been sexually in the past 12 months.The Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner ruled an inquiry was justified last week.Activists said the review would be a world first.”This is the first time anywhere that the gay blood ban has gone on trial”, Rodney Croome from the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group said.”While Italy and Spai