Successive federal governments, of both major parties, have promised and then failed to protect LGBTQ students and teachers in religious schools against discrimination.
In NSW, LGBTQ students and teachers in religious schools can still be legally discriminated against for who they are.
This is despite successive governments at the federal level promising to pass laws to protect them. Other states and territories also have local protections – but halfway through the Minns Government’s first term, we are yet to see similar laws introduced here.
Alastair Lawrie from the Justice and Equity Centre’s , who has dissected the history of broken promises in the latest edition of the Australian Journal of Human Rights, joined 2SER Breakfast to explain why LGBTQ students and teachers might have a sense of Deja Vu.
