Moving Forward

~ Law reform

1. Will your party amend the Relationships Act so that relationships formally registered in other jurisdictions will automatically be recognised as registered relationships in Tasmania?

2. Will your party amend the Anti-Discrimination Act to create a new ground for discrimination – gender identity – to provide more effective protection from discrimination for transgender and intersex people?

3. Will your party commit to not providing any more exemptions on the grounds of religion in the Anti-Discrimination Act?

4. Will your party amend the Adoption Act to allow same-sex couples to be assessed, on the same basis as opposite-sex couples, as potential adoptive parents for the children relinquished by other people?

5. Does your party support a state Charter of Rights?

~ Policy

6. Will your party review and resource formal liaison between the LGBTI community and government agencies, especially health, police, education, tourism and justice, to ensure it is as effective as possible?

7. Will your party create policy positions within existing government policy-making bodies to ensure policy on LGBTI issues is on a par with policy for other minority and disadvantaged communities?

8. Will your party create a ministerial portfolio on LGBTI issues to ensure there is high-level leadership on these issues within government?

~ Services

9. Will your party increase funding for existing LGBTI community support, counselling and education services, or fund new services, where an unmet need has been shown to exist?

~ Tackling prejudice and fostering inclusion

10. How does your party intend to meet the Tasmanian Together goals of reducing discrimination and violence against LGBTI people?

11. Will your party allocate funding for police, health worker and teacher training in sexual and gender diversity to meet relevant Tasmania Together goals?

12. Will your party provide funding for class-room anti-homophobia and affirming diversity programs which have been proven to reduce levels of prejudice and bullying in school environments?

13. Does your party commit to not authorising, publishing or distributing, or helping other organisations or individuals to authorise, publish or distribute, election materials which appeal to fear and hostility towards LGBTI people and their human rights?