Hansard debates

...That this house notes that the important protections in the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021 ...should not be revoked, removed or amended. ...

...was a young man when he was subjected to gay conversion therapy—he is still a young man in my book....thought we had put to bed, which was banning gay suppression practices. We did it proudly in December last ... What are suppression and conversion practices? You know, it is effectively not believing somebody. It is ...it is actually about not believing people, denying their humanity or somehow thinking that—like some kind of surgical procedure, ...you add to that a trusted authority like a church or a family or community leaders, the power of ...

...then Premier said: It is now accepted that consensual sexual acts between two adult men should never have been a ... It should never have been a criminal act. It was quite right that there was bipartisan support in ...here than in other parts of the English-speaking world—that consensual acts between adults were criminal offences, and it is ... We support the criminalisation of conversion therapy and conversion practices. They will not be decriminalised if there is ...a change of government. But I would point out some specifics that were not mentioned in the member for ...

...focused on arguing about watering down our laws to ban conversion therapy. Our government, the Labor government, ...committed to outlawing these practices in response to the health complaints commissioner’s inquiry, which uncovered evidence of serious harm ...caused by attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, harm that spans from complex trauma through ... In February 2021 we passed laws that made this type of action unlawful. The legislation was welcomed by ...given implicit approval, of subtle jibes falling by the wayside or of overt discrimination going unspoken and unchallenged. Every ...

...eloquently said: the Liberal Party support a ban on gay conversion therapy. We have supported that ban right from ... This form of conversion therapy is abhorrent. It is sickening, quite frankly, and we all a ...both sides very eloquently spoke out against this type of conversion therapy, which has no place in this state—none—in ...Australia or anywhere for that matter, anywhere at all. I thought the debate was done. I thought ...the thing that I thought we all agreed about—that gay conversion therapy should be banned. I cannot believe that ...

...far from it, rather it is because having debated the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 ...the heart of the suggestion that laws on banning gay conversion therapy are somehow wrong is that the people protected ... Nobody should ever be led to believe that any practice could change their sexual orientation or gender identity. ... She says: how do you know you are right- or left-handed? No-one tells you. You are not ... Imagine for a moment left-handed people being subjected to practices, sometimes violent practices, seeking to convert them ...

...I come to this debate today in sorrow—not in joy or anger or pride or any of that, but ...of my friend Patrick McIvor, who went through, effectively, gay conversion therapy and how his experience and his story actually ...and we 100 per cent supported the notion of outlawing gay conversion therapy. But as I said in my speech ... But the conversion therapies that I talked about that my friend Patrick McIvor actually went through were far more ...the time, which finished with: We are vehemently opposed to conversion practices. AMA Victoria’s concerns are not motivated by ...

... I strongly supported the original Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020, and if my memory ...and that no person should feel that they have to change their sexuality, that their sexuality is wrong or ...health complaints commissioner was asked to lead an investigation into conversion therapy practices in Victoria, the commissioner found that ...The recommendation was that the government legislate to prohibit these practices in all their forms. Even calling this abhorrent ... practice ‘therapy’ runs the risk of legitimising these practices, because therapy as we know it does work but suppression ...

...sort of reinvigoration of the debate that in some way or in some form there were members of this Parliament ...who were in support of gay conversion practices. However, I now have come to the conclusion, after ...way anybody, any member of this place of any party or any Independent, will at this point in time ... or in the future seek to reintroduce gay conversion practices. I do not know of one single individual. ...ever, ever should a member of Parliament seek to malign or harm someone based on complete and utter lies. ...

...of champagne and have a quick kiss with your partner or hold hands in the street. That is what ...electorate of Lowan that contacted her and said that these practices should exist. I am not sure whether the ...member for Lowan was not in that party room meeting or whether she has not read the Melbourne newspaper, ...shadow ministry for equality— doesn’t give him the right to change history and put a very definite view that is ...it is on gender diversity, whether it is on climate change or whether it is just being listened to and ...