Actually what happened in Tas with anti-discrimination law in 2012-3 is irrelevant to employment-based discrimination on sexuality grounds in religious schools, as the legal situation there was not changed nor did the then government attempt to change it (thread). #politas
https://twitter.com/BrianWightman76/status/1424854097644056605
The "wind-backs" @BrianWightman76 refers to were in fact Legislative Council (not just Liberal) amendments to lower house legislation. These especially concerned then government's attempts to broaden Section 17 (comments that offend, insult etc on the basis of attributes).
Somehow (and this still staggers me) the government decided it was a good idea to ban statements that would offend, insult, ridicule (etc) a person on the basis of their political opinions or religion, initially without even a good faith/public purpose exemption.
After amendments back and forth the LegCo removed those bits while allowing for a major overall broadening of the Act. There were faith-based schools changes but they were in the area of allowing applications for exemption for student admissions, not employment.
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The current situation with employment in Tasmania is the same as it was pre-2012. A faith-based school wanting to sack a staff member for being gay in Tasmania is in breach unless it applies for and is granted an exemption.
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