Ruddock Report: religious schools and same sex attracted students
A media outlet here in Australia has released what it says are the 20 recommendations made by the Expert Panel on Religious Freedom chaired by the Hon Philip Ruddock. The Report itself was delivered to the Government in May 2018 but has not officially been released. Apparently, the Government is planning to release the Report at the same time as announcing its official response. The main issue which has generated controversy during the last week, in which there was a selective leaking of some of the recommendations, were proposals dealing with the rights of religious schools to take into account the sexual orientation of students in certain areas. The changes proposed were not radical changes to the existing law, but were presented as such when first publicized Background- religious schools and discrimination Commonwealth law has for some time prohibited discrimination on certain specific grounds, limited because the Commonwealth needs specific “treaty” justification fo