Some of Victoria’s ‘inherent requirements’ amendments may be unconstitutional

Posted on October 2, 2016 
Filed under Culture wars, Opinion

victoria-map“The Victorian Government introduced the Equal Opportunity Amendment (Religious Exceptions) Bill 2016 into its Parliament on 30 August 2016. It has passed the Legislative Assembly without amendment, and is presently before the Legislative Council. …

I have commented in a previous post as to why I think this is poor legislation from a policy perspective. In that previous post I briefly noted that an argument could be made that some of the amendments, at least, would be unconstitutional. Since that previous post I have looked into the area further and am fairly sure that this is the case. Here I want to develop the case a bit further. …”

– In his latest post at Law and Religion Australia, Neil Foster sheds light on the proposed Victorian bill.