Submission to Queensland Parliamentary inquiry on birth registrations bill

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IHRA has made a submission to a Queensland Parliament committee inquiry into reform of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Bill. The Bill proposes changes to the period for registrations of some births, and some reforms to the Anti-Discrimination Act.

The submission:

supports proposals to simplify changes to birth certificates
expresses concern about proposals to reform birth registration processes
supports proposals to reform anti-discrimination law
calls for further legislative reform

The submission was written for IHRA by Morgan Carpenter.

We also appended a copy of our 2022 submission to the Queensland Human Rights Commission on reform of the Anti-Discrimination Act.

More information

Download the submission in PDF format (including the appended document)

Download the letter of submission in Word format

More on our 2022 submission to the Queensland Human Rights Commission

The Parliamentary committee inquiry

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