Tasmania Police releases LGBTI recruitment video
It was once dubbed “Bigot’s Island” by the international media for its political and social hostility towards homosexuality, but Tasmania has come a long way …
Posts tagged Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act
Tasmanian MLCs vote to uphold anti-discrimination laws
The Tasmanian state government is facing renewed pressure to oppose the federal government’s controversial draft Religious Discrimination Bill after the state’s Legislative Council voted to …
Hobart rally urges protection for Tasmania’s anti-discrimination laws
Approximately 250 people attended a rally in Hobart over the weekend to oppose a federal government plan to override and water down Tasmania’s anti-discrimination laws. …
Equality Tasmania releases religious discrimination fact sheets
The Equality Tasmania group has released two new fact sheets highlighting the adverse effects of the draft Religious Discrimination Bill on Tasmanians. The aim of …
Call for major parties to defend Tas anti-discrimination laws
The Tasmanian Greens Party has passed a motion condemning the federal government’s controversial Religious Discrimination Bill in the hopes of protecting the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act. …
Albanese urged to defend Tasmanian anti-discrimination laws
The Equality Tasmania group has urged Labor leader Anthony Albanese to rule out supporting the Coalition’s proposed override of state discrimination legislation, after ALP frontbencher …
Croome slams federal government override of state laws
Tasmanian LGBTI advocate Rodney Croome has slammed a planned federal override of Tasmania’s offensive language laws announced today by Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter. The override, …