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Equality Tasmania – LGBTIQA+ GROUPS WELCOME LABORโ€™S ELECTION PLAN

Representatives of the LGBTIQA+ community have welcomed Laborโ€™s Plan for LGBTIQA+ Equality unveiled today by equality spokesperson, Ella Haddad. The Labor plan includes โ€“ a minister for equality โ€“ an effective ban on conversion practices, working with community on a model โ€“ funding for services, support and advocacy, including almost $100,000 per year for Working It Out and [โ€ฆ]

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Equality Tasmania – GREENSโ€™ LGBTIQA+ COMMITMENTS WELCOMED

Equality Tasmania and Working It Out have welcomed the Tasmanian Greensโ€™ commitment to a raft of LGBTIQA+ reforms and to an effective ban on conversion practices. The Greensโ€™ policy, unveiled today by Greensโ€™ leader, Dr Rosalie Woodruff, commits to โ€“ an effective ban on conversion practices, fully implementing the recommendations of the TLRIโ€“ implement an LGBTIQA+ [โ€ฆ]

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Equality Tasmania – CONVERSION BAN ELECTION COMMITMENT SOUGHT

Equality Tasmania will seek commitments from all parties and independents to a ban on conversion practices in the lead up to the state election on March 23rd. Group spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said, โ€œConversion practices continue to cause deep harm to LGBTIQA+ Tasmania two years after the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute called for them to be [โ€ฆ]

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Equality Tasmania – NEW CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR TASMANIAN CONVERSION BILL TO BE SCRAPPED

Equality Tasmania has launched a new campaign calling on the State Government to scrap its conversion practices bill and draft a new version. The campaign will dispel myths about a ban on conversion practices and encourage Tasmanians to sign an Open Letter to the Government. Equality Tasmania spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said, โ€œThe Governmentโ€™s bill has [โ€ฆ]

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Equality Tasmania – Christian Schools Wrong on Conversion Law

Equality Tasmania says Christian Schools Australia and Australian Association of Christian Schools are wrong to say conversion legislation is โ€œa solution in search of a problemโ€. Spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said, โ€œNational and local research, including research commissioned by the Tasmanian Government, shows that 5% of LGBTIQA+ have been through formal conversion practices.โ€ โ€œHalf of young LGBTIQA+ [โ€ฆ]

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