This law impacts our community. It is up for review, and we need to tell our stories about how discrimination under NT law for LGBTQI people impacts us.
Some of the ways the Act doesn’t protect us are:
- there is no protection for intersex people under the act
- religious educational institutions can discriminate against a teacher who is gay
- IVF is not covered by the Act so people accessing this service have no protection, and
- there are no anti-vilification provisions.
The review closes 3 December 2017. Then the government will start thinking about what the new law will look like using the stories and information that they receive in submissions. Please get in touch with Rainbow Territory if you want to contribute to its submission in relation to changes to the law impacting LGBTQI Territorians, or come along to our next meeting. You can also make your own submission, or get together as a group and make a submission.
More information about the review is on the Anti-Discrimination Commission website