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- Tuesday, 6 October 2009
HIV rates
Southern Star has run a number of stories on HIV rates in the last few weeks that seem to be contradictory.
One the one hand there’s a Burnet Institute survey of men on the scene in Melbourne who don’t even know they have HIV (02/09). Yet the next week the front page headline screamed rates in Victoria had gone down according to the latest figures.
I appreciate the HIV message is a complex one but what is the average punter to take from such different and confusing takes on the issue?
— Pete
Disgrace
I’m finding it hard to understand how anyone could justify the new exemptions awarded to relgious organisations, giving them the right to discriminate against people based on their sexuality, marital status, or sex.
What really angers me is the seemingly arbitrary way in which the decision was made — apparently, discriminating against someone because of their race, or because they breastfeed, is bad and should not be allowed. But discriminating against someone because they happen to be gay, or are an unwed mother (the horror!) is not just accepted, but now a legally enshrined right.
How were these decisions made? Either discrimination is lawful, or it is unlawful. Those in charge of allowing these exemptions need to make up their minds.
— Disgusted
Exemptions
I, for one, am outraged we’ve been led down the garden path by our Attorney-General, Rob Hulls.
He’s sneakily released the changes of the Exemptions Inquiry before the report which serves nothing more than to appease the ever encroaching religious right.
The Labor Party should be aware there is an election coming and not only the religious vote. Last time I checked we were living in a secular society.
What a joke — and the joke’s on us.
— Cath
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