Published: October 15, 2018
Dean Smith joins moderate Liberals pressing Scott Morrison to end religious schools’ right to fire gay teachers
Liberal senator Dean Smith – the architect of the marriage equality legislation that passed the Australian parliament in 2017 – has called for discrimination law protections to be extended to LGBTI teachers at religious schools.
Smith’s intervention adds pressure to Scott Morrison who now faces calls from Liberals including deputy leader Josh Frydenberg and candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma to protect teachers, while Coalition conservatives will ask him to explain the government’s move to close discrimination law exemptions that allow religious schools to expel gay students.
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