Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Labor has offered the government our support in removing exemptions that allow religious schools to discriminate against children and staff on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. However, Labor also respects the rights of religious organisations to run their schools in line with their beliefs and their doctrine, and we will be talking further with schools to ensure that they are able to teach their students according to their religious beliefs while not discriminating against students or staff. Labor does not support the parts of this motion calling for federal funding and charitable status to be withheld from religious schools because of the impacts such punitive measures would have on all students.