Comments on: South Australia celebrates while Victoria disappoints on trans laws /news/south-australia-celebrates-victorian-disappoints-trans-laws/154366 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Mike /news/south-australia-celebrates-victorian-disappoints-trans-laws/154366#comment-590819 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:21:29 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=154366#comment-590819 South Australia upper house chamber passed an amendment to the Surrogacy Eligibility Bill 2016 – to allow doctors to legally discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status on receiving assisted reproductive technology or IVF treatment. This is totally inconsistent with the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act 1984!

]]> By: Paul /news/south-australia-celebrates-victorian-disappoints-trans-laws/154366#comment-590631 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:01:14 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=154366#comment-590631 Congratulations South Australia on passing the relationship register, adoption equality and Trans*/intersex birth certificate reforms!

Since the gay panic defence is within common law and not written/statute law, there is no need to introduce a bill within South Australia Parliament. It is up to the courts within South Australia to decide abolishing it. Queensland has already introduced a bill to abolish it within section 308 of the Criminal Code 1899.

Shame, Shame, Shame! – On the LNP, DLP, FFP, J1P and SFFP within Victoria, blocking 2 very important bills within the upper house of Victoria – by a tie vote of 19-19!

Correction to SSO:

The Surrogacy Eligibility Bill has to go back to the lower house of South Australian Parliament in February 2017 – because of amendments to clauses 4, 5 and 9.

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