Australia politics live news updates: religious discrimination bill goes to Senate after marathon debate; AstraZeneca booster approved for adults

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Liberal senator Jane Hume said the government will try to move Senate amendments to remove the Sex Discrimination Act amendments from the House, which would have better protected transgender students.

Those are the amendments which Labor and the crossbench have been out this morning claiming as a huge win. The non-government members of the House (and five Coalition MPs) succeeded with amendments to remove section 38 (3) of the Sex Discrimination Act, which does not make it unlawful for religious schools to discriminate based on sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or relationship status.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese called the removal of that section a “fundamental principle” to make “an enormous difference”, during an early morning press conference on Thursday.

The government’s position had been to only remove “sexual orientation” from that clause but leave the rest. Instead, last night’s marathon sitting saw the House agree to remove that whole section.

“The government will inevitably move amendments to try and revert the bill back to the government’s position,” Hume said in a press conference, when asked what the Coalition might do next.

Hume said the amendments would be “re-prosecuted” in the upper house. She said instead the government still backed an Australian Law Reform Commission process to investigate the 38 (3) issue, “so that we get that balance right and handle the issue as sensitively as possible”:


When you deal with competing rights, it’s always going to be a contentious issue … the rights of children, sometimes very vulnerable children, with the rights of people of faith to have the choice to send their children to a same-sex school.

People of faith should be allowed to express their faith to send their children to a same-sex school but at the same time we want to make sure we protect all children, particularly Australia’s most vulnerable.

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