{"id":87383,"date":"2019-12-10T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87383"},"modified":"2019-12-10T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:08:50","slug":"abc-aus-controversial-religious-discrimination-bill-overhauled-as-australia-government-releases-new-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87383","title":{"rendered":"(ABC Aus.) Controversial religious discrimination bill overhauled as Australia Government releases new draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">The Federal Government has overhauled its proposed religious discrimination laws in an effort to<strong> <\/strong>win over faith leaders who rebuked the Coalition&#8217;s earlier attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General Christian Porter outlined 11 changes to the draft bill, which the Government opted against introducing to Parliament last month after <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-11-30\/government-delays-introduction-of-religious-discrimination-bill\/11753614\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facing criticism from religious and groups advocating for racial and sexual equality, and for those with disabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As flagged, the new bill will allow religious bodies \u2014 such as hospitals and aged care providers \u2014 to continue to hire people on the basis of their religion.<\/p>\n<p>The other changes include defining the word &#8220;vilify&#8221; as inciting &#8220;hatred or violence&#8221; and exemptions to allow religious camps and conference centres to take faith into account when deciding to provide accommodation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-12-10\/second-draft-religious-discrimination-bill-released\/11783384\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has overhauled its proposed religious discrimination laws in an effort to win over faith leaders who rebuked the Coalition&#8217;s earlier attempts. Attorney-General Christian Porter outlined 11 changes to the draft bill, which the Government opted against introducing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87383\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,168,114,151,108,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87386,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87383\/revisions\/87386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}