Amanda Stoker walks back on Morrison pledge to protect LGBTQ+ students in religious discrimination bill

Amanda Stoker said she is concerned that the amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act must ‘integrate well’ with the religious bills. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The assistant attorney general, Amanda Stoker, has muddied the waters about whether LGBTQ+ students will be protected at the same time as the religious discrimination bill potentially passes federal parliament.

Stoker said on Friday the Sex Discrimination Act “shouldn’t be changed unless we know the final form of the religious discrimination bill”, prompting the prime minister, Scott Morrison, to reassert his pledge that amendments to protect LGBTQ+ students would be contained in the same set of bills.