Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006 was tabled before the House of Assembly on 26 October 2006; South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, House of Assembly, 26 October 2006 (MJ Atkinson, Attorney-General). A further bill, the Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 was tabled before the Legislative Council on 26 November 2008.
3.
Proposed s 85T(1) of the Equal Opportunities Act 1984 (SA); see s 61 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 (SA). In the 2006 version of the Bill discrimination on the ground of profession, trade or lawful occupation and area of residence were also going to be prohibited; this has been removed from the 2008 Bill.
4.
By the incorporation of new definitions of ‘disability’ as (g) a disorder, illness or disease that affects a person's thought processes, perception of reality, emotions or judgment or that results in disturbed behaviour and (d) the presence in the body of organisms capable of causing disease or illness: proposed additions to Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA) s 5(1); see Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 (SA) s 5. The same amendments were proposed in the 2006 Bill.
5.
See South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, House of Assembly, 7 February 2007, 1696–1708, (Mrs Redmond), 1708–9 (Mr Pisoni), 1709–11 (Mr Hamilton-Smith).
6.
However Mr Atkinson admitted that Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Seventh Day Adventist and Scientology leaders were in favour of the introduction of a prohibition on discrimination based on religion. RobertsJeremy, ‘Christian Pressure Waters Down Bill’, The Australian (Sydney), 20 November 2006.
7.
Proposed s 85T(1)(f) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA); see s 61 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 (SA). The reasons for and consequences of this limited prohibition are further discussed in HewittAnne‘“It's not because you wear hijab, it's because you're Muslim”: Inconsistencies in South Australia's discrimination laws’ (2007) 1Queensland University of Technology Journal of Law and Justice57.
8.
Proposed amendment to s 86 of the Equal Opportunities Act 1984 (SA); see s 61 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006 (SA).
In which the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal held that the presentation of a seminar and publication of articles regarding the religious beliefs of Muslims by Pastors of the Catch the Fire Ministries incited hatred and contempt of, and revulsion towards the religious beliefs of Muslims and therefore constituted a breach of s 8 of the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 (Vic): Islamic Council of Victoria v Catch the Fire Ministries Inc [2005] VCAT 1159. See also Catch the Fire Ministries v Islamic Council of Victoria Inc [2006] VSCA 284.
11.
South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, House of Assembly, 7 February 2007, 1704 (Mrs Redmond).
Proposed deletion of existing exception in s 50(2) of the Equal Opportunities Act1984 (SA); see s 24 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006 (SA) and s 25 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 (SA).
14.
Proposed introduction of an exemption on these limited terms in s 34(3) of the Equal Opportunities Act 1984 (SA); see s 17 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006 (SA) and s 18 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 (SA).
15.
Proposed new provision s 85ZE of the Equal Opportunities Act 1984 (SA); see s 61 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 (SA) and s 66 Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2006 (SA).
