The federal attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has asked the Australian Law Reform Commission to review the country’s religious exemptions for schools in federal anti-discrimination law, in the first formal step towards new religious discrimination laws.
The government won’t be moving forward on any proposed legislation until at least the middle of next year, with the ALRC not due to report back until April. The review will be headed by Justice Stephen Rothman AM of the NSW supreme court, a former president of the Great Synagogue.
