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Rainbow Families Joint Submission to the Religious Freedom Bills Consultation.
Collecting our community stories for the consultation
The federal government released their Exposure Draft on the proposed Religious Freedom Reforms and have asked for community feedback by October 2, 2019. You can read more here: https://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Pages/religious-freedom-bills.aspx
We have combined to collectively respond on behalf of rainbow families across Queensland, NSW and Victoria and are seeking your stories about your personal experiences of discrimination.
We aim to illustrate the personal impact some parts of the proposed bills may have on our day to day lives, and the impact it may also have on our children because of comments made about their parents/carers/coparents sex, sexuality or gender identity, how their family was created or their family form. This is why we are asking about any discriminatory, inappropriate, offensive or hurtful comments you or your family have been confronted with by specific people in specific settings.
We have also asked if you are a member of a faith community or are religious so we can remind the government that you can be a member of multiple communities at once.
We understand it may be difficult to contribute and so please consider contacting QLIFE - 1800 184 527 or seek support via their website https://qlife.org.au/
Your responses may be edited for length and some individual quotes may used in our submission or media related to this issue over the coming months. All quotes will be de-identifed however we will include your responses to Question 1 and to Question 2 - so we suggest you leave these questions blank if you do not wish to risk being identified.
Thank you in anticipation.
In solidarity.
Rainbow Families NSW, Rainbow Families Queensland and Rainbow Families Victoria.