Senate review to anti-discrimination draft

The Senate has released it's review of the anti-discrimination draft bill, which left churches free to discriminate against anyone it liked. It has mad recommendations in keeping with the howls of protest across the country. GetUp sent this email:

Hi Peter, 

I have some good news, and quick, urgent action you can take to help protect Australians from discrimination. 

What's at stake? 
1 - Protecting people from discrimination because of sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex. 
2 - Making religious organisations follow the same discrimination rules as everyone else in many areas (so religious schools can't expel gay students or refuse welfare services to pregnant women). 
3 - Preventing discrimination because of irrelevant criminal records, which particularly impacts Indigenous communities. 

Late yesterday, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee recommended extending Australia's anti-discrimination protection to include these measures and more. Tens of thousands of GetUp members either made submissions to the committee or contacted their MPs about the review. You made an impact! And against all expectations, the committee recommended every measure we fought for. Now it's up to the new Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, and your local MP, to pass what would become the strongest protections from discrimination in Australia's history. 

Please take 30 seconds to sign this urgent petition before we deliver it to the Attorney-General on Tuesday -- and if you have another 2 minutes, follow up by contacting your local MP using our quick and easy tool:

Sign the petition here.

Let's hope the new Attorney General will welcome the recommendations of the review and adopt them all.