by Peter Kelleher
On Thursday August 27, 2020, the ACT became the second jurisdiction in Australia, after Queensland only two weeks earlier, to pass legislation banning “conversion therapy”.
In an effort to persuade the Chief Minister of the ACT, Andrew Barr, to postpone the legislation until he and his colleagues and advisers were able to be more fully informed of what the social and medical ramifications of the law would be, Professor John Whitehall wrote to Mr Barr on the Tuesday befo…
