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Tassie’s Expungement Bill better but show us the money
Tasmania’s proposed Expungement of Historical Offences Bill improves on previous 2016 legislation but does not go far enough says Equality Tasmania. Expungement of Historical Offences Bill The new bill is a response to an independent review of landmark legislation passed in 2016. The Hodgman Liberal Government legislated then to allow the expungement of historical gay …
UK will pardon now-abolished same-sex crime convictions
The UK will amend laws to pardon all now-abolished same-sex crime convictions. The criteria for a pardon will include any repealed or abolished civilian or military offence imposed because of consensual same-sex sexual activity. Home secretary Priti Patel said she hoped the scheme “would go some way to righting the wrongs of the past… “It …
Rodney Croome says reparations owed for historic persecution
Rodney Croome says governments owe reparations to people convicted under Australia’s former anti-LGBTIQ laws. Rodney Croome is a spokesperson for Equality Tasmania and just.equal It’s time to talk about financial reparations for historic persecution of LGBTIQ+ Australians. Two issues sparked this conversation: compensation for victims of Australia’s former laws against homosexuality, and redress for survivors …
Western Australia Passes Law To Allow Expungement Of Historical Gay Convictions
Western Australia has passed laws to allow people charged under unjust homosexual laws to have the convictions removed from their criminal records. The state decriminalised consensual homosexual activity in March 1990 but those prosecuted under previous laws still have the convictions on their criminal records today, affecting their employment, travel and adoption. While people affected …
Queensland Man Alan Raabe ‘May Be Unable To Get His Gay Conviction Expunged’
Alan Raabe, the Queensland man who became the face of the campaign to expunge the state’s historical gay convictions, may be ineligible to have his own expunged, his lawyer says. Homosexual sex was decriminalised in Queensland in 1991, but men who were charged for consensual activity under several laws prior to that still hold the …
New Zealand Passes Law To Wipe Historical Gay Convictions
New Zealand’s parliament has voted unanimously to pass legislation allowing men with historical gay convictions to have them expunged from their criminal records. The country decriminalised homosexuality in 1986, but convictions for consensual gay sex offences still remain on many men’s criminal records, potentially affecting their employment and travel. On Tuesday night MPs passed a …
Northern Territory Moves To Expunge Historical Gay Convictions
The Northern Territory government has moved to expunge the criminal records of people convicted of consensual homosexual activity prior to decriminalisation in the territory in 1984. Attorney-General Natasha Fyles introduced the legislation to parliament on Wednesday and said it was an important step towards righting past historical wrongs against the territory’s LGBTIQ community. “Across the …
1000s of gay men pardoned under Alan Turing Law
Thousands of gay and bisexual men found guilty of now-abolished sexual offences in the United Kingdom have received posthumous pardons. The men received the pardons under the new ‘Alan Turing Law’. People who died earlier will receive automatic pardons. 15,000 living men convicted of gay sexual acts before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and …
TASMANIA MOVES TO EXPUNGE GAY SEX CONVICTIONS
Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks wants to set up a system to expunge gay sex convictions. Ms Banks has recommended establishing a three-person panel made up of herself, the registrar of the Working with Vulnerable People Registration Scheme and the dean of law at the University of Tasmania. Ms Banks said it would be an …
