Religious freedom and LGBT kids: Coalition kicks can down the road with yet another review

Analysis: the latest review is not a necessary step to legislative action - it’s a stopgap

The Coalition’s response to the Ruddock review of religious freedom is … wait for it, another review.

The Australian Law Reform Commission will take a look at five of the most contentious Ruddock recommendations, because it’s just too politically difficult to make good on a promise to take away religious schools’ power to expel gay students in a way that pleases both Labor and Coalition conservatives.

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