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ARTICLE · 21 DECEMBER 2019

Get your religious discrimination priorities right

The second exposure draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2019, with its accompanying legislation, was introduced.

AustraliaGovernment, Public Sector

While the eastern side of the country was burning like never before, some of the old boys' club were sitting in the backroom of parliament house inhaling some refined pure white Christian prejudice in legislative form. It was the best gear they'd had in ages.

One of his faceless cronies, slapped the guy in charge on the shoulder and said, "Mate, how's about we make it so doctors and medicos – and all that – can treat queers and, you know, those types of women differently. So, GPs that think like us, don't have to provide those unchristian treatments?"

Another looked across the conference table and returned, "Mate, where have you been? On the sauce again, or something? We already did that last time. This time we're going to add legalising that whole Folau thing, so he'd never have been reprimanded in the first place, let alone fired."

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