“It is really disappointing that after so much heart-felt advocacy by survivors, so much ground-breaking research and so many well-developed recommendations from the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, the Government has come up with such useless legislation.” – Rodney Croome

Equality Tasmania has again slammed a State Government bill unveiled yesterday that purports to ban conversion practices.

Group spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said,

“After in-depth consideration of the bill and discussions with survivor advocates, it’s clear this bill is irredeemable and should be scrapped.”

“The bill is full of loopholes that allow conversion practices and they harm they inflict to continue.”

For more information on some of these loopholes: http://tinyurl.com/ddhzfse6

“This is the kind of bill an anti-LGBTIQA+ group like the Australian Christian Lobby would draft.”

“This bill is a far cry from the promise Premier Jeremy Rockliff made to implement the gold-standard recommendations of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institue.”

“It is really disappointing that after so much heart-felt advocacy by survivors, so much ground-breaking research and so many well-developed recommendations from the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, the Government has come up with such useless legislation.”

“We will use the current consultation period to urge the Government to scrap this bill, listen to the experts and the survivors, and draft something that will do the job.”

For a copy of this statement on the web, click here

For more information contact Rodney Croome on 0409 010 668.