Australia : Labor pushes coalition over gay students

Federal Labor will introduce a private members bill to protect LGBTQI schools from discrimination at faith-based schools.

Labor has broken away from working with the federal government to protect gay students in religious schools, arguing the coalition is dragging its feet and the matter must be resolved.

The major parties had been working together to remove exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act that allow faith-based schools to discriminate against LGBTQI students.

The government promised to resolve the issue before the end of the year, but has not yet done so.