Before the 1980s, Australian teachers could be banned for being gay. A new report wants to protect them at religious schools too
- Written by: Archie Thomas, Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
In 1976, Greg Weir was banned from teaching by the Queensland government because he was gay – and was then denied employment in New South Wales and Victoria for the same reason. Two years earlier, in 1974, New South Wales trainee teacher Penny Short was declared “medically unfit” to teach after publishing a lesbian poem.
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