Published: December 09, 2019
Redraft specifies that medical practitioners cannot object to treating people based on gender or other characteristics
The federal government will enshrine religious institutions’ ability to discriminate against staff on the basis of religion but has narrowed a controversial proposal to allow medical practitioners to object to treating patients.
On Tuesday the prime minister, Scott Morrison, and the attorney general, Christian Porter, unveiled changes designed to respond to a revolt from conservative religious organisations against the religious discrimination bill which caused the Coalition to miss its deadline of introducing the bill to parliament by year’s end.
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