NATIONAL AFFAIRS Human Rights Commission backs same-sex marriage
In its latest report, Resilient Individuals: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Intersex Rights, the Human Rights Commission has called on the federal government to legalise same-sex marriage promptly, calling the existing law “state-sanctioned structural discrimination … which has flow-on impacts in legitimising institutional and interpersonal discrimination.” Tim Wilson The report was launched by a Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Wilson. In his introductory message, Mr Wilson said: “I have also taken on the role as the de facto SOGII Commissioner at the commission to ensure that LGBTI [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex] people have a voice.” As Mr Wilson is a…
