House debates Questions without Notice

Schools

Monday, 3 December 2018 House of Representatives

Kerryn Phelps

Kerryn Phelps Wentworth, Independent

3:13 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. During the recent Wentworth by-election campaign you committed to urgently eliminating discrimination against students on the basis of their sexuality. I draw your attention to recent reports of the brave statement by Finn Stannard, a year 12 student at St Ignatius College, Riverview, coming out as gay to his school community and saying that he hopes to start a teaching degree next year. Does the Prime Minister believe that any Australian school should have the right to expel students like Finn or to reject or sack him as a teacher when he graduates?

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