Analysis: Why Labor is smart to try to change the religious discrimination bill | CroweDM
and force Liberals and Nationals to decide where they stand. And the caucus chose to insist on their amendments in a final showdown in the lower house.
On religious freedom, Labor will scale back the “statement of belief” clause in the draft Religious Discrimination Act in the hope it can prevent speech that harms others.One gap in the Albanese approach for LGBTQI campaigners is that Labor will not amend the Sex Discrimination Act to protect teachers now – it will review it instead. Another is that it will keep some of the “statement of belief” when the campaigners want the entire bill scrapped.
Labor has set a course to amend the package in the lower house and may get the numbers to succeed. It has 69 of its own MPs and may persuade five crossbenchers – Adam Bandt from the Greens as well as independents Helen Haines, Rebekha Sharkie, Zali Steggall and Andrew Wilkie. It only needs a few Liberals to help in order to amend the bill.
The alternative Labor approach, put by Josh Burns, the member for Macnamara in Melbourne, was to reject the bill in the lower house at the first opportunity if the amendments do not succeed. Only a dozen MPs backed this approach in the Wednesday caucus meeting. The majority voted to allow a test in the Senate.To reject the entire package as soon as possible is to deliver what Morrison wants: a simple “no” that puts none of his party under any pressure.
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