Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

It is one of those difficulties where I think, and I think even the opposition might think, that the Greens are playing politics with this. This is a very serious issue. What I have said is that those current exemptions for religious bodies, which have been in place for 30 years, will continue. But when you look at the work that both this Attorney-General has done and the previous Attorney-General has done and that I did when human services minister, it removed discrimination from all these areas, including from areas such as those Minister Kim Carr has now in Centrelink. It was taking away those discriminations. We have done more for the GLBTI community in removing these discriminations than the Greens could ever, ever hope to do. No government has done more to wind back— (Time expired)