Quick Guide to Australian LGBTI Anti-Discrimination Laws
by Alastair Lawrie
In the five years I have been writing about LGBTI rights in Australia, I have yet to come across a quick guide to the laws which protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians against discrimination (even the Wikipedia page ‘LGBT rights in Australia’ has a brief description of the rights provided by the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 before stating that ‘each of the states and territories have their own laws which protect LGBTI people from discrimination’ – and that’s it).