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 …
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Online Petition Seeks Repeal Of Gay Panic Defence In South Australia
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 …
South Australia Abolishing ‘Gay Panic’ Defence?
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 Australia to finally scrap ‘gay panic’ defence by the end of the year
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.