South Australia Outlaws Gay Panic Defence
The abhorrent legal defence of “gay panic” has finally been kicked out of Australia with South Australia becoming the last state to pass a legislation …
The abhorrent legal defence of “gay panic” has finally been kicked out of Australia with South Australia becoming the last state to pass a legislation …
A change.org petition asking South Australia to outlaw the ‘gay panic defence’ and add hate crime provisions to the sentencing law has attracted over 5000 …
Forty five years after South Australia became the first state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality, it is the only jurisdiction yet to outlaw the discriminatory …
South Australian Attorney-General Vickie Chapman says a bill will be drafted for public consultation with a view to remove the defence by the end of the year.