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Site created: 16 Oct 2002 Last updated: 14 Feb 2003 |
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7-9pm Monday 17 February
2003
The ACT Government is currently examining legislation that discriminates against GLBTI people, and has released an issues paper that identifies nine key areas, which are listed over the page.
Come along and share your views with the Good Process Working Group to
ensure that their response is comprehensive and relevant. At the forum, you will have an opportunity to discuss your experiences and concerns in small groups relating to the topics raised in the issues paper and hear a report back from the group on those main topics. Having shared your experiences and heard those of other community
members, you will receive a guide to writing your own submission and you’ll
be invited to join Good Process. Anonymous contributions will also be collected from a suggestion box for the Good Process Working Group to consider or you can email your views before the forum to good_process_act@hotmail.com The deadline for providing comments to the ACT
Government is This forum is supported by
the AIDS Action Council of the ACT “Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex people in the ACT: an issues paper”
identifies and discusses nine key issues: > Discrimination and the same sex relationships > Discrimination and transgender and intersex
people > Reproductive and parenting rights > Registering relationships > Anti-Vilification Legislation > Defence of provocation: the ‘gay panic’
defence > Meeting the needs of transgender people > Intersex people and “normalising” surgery > Policy programmes and priorities A full copy of the
paper is available at: http://www.jcs.act.gov.au/eLibrary/discuss_papers.html i How to submit direct
comments on the paper to the ACT Government?
You
can write to:
The deadline for providing
comments to the ACT Government is Guidelines
for submitting comments (prepared by Good Process) q If you have views about the ACT Government
issues paper, or about the process of reform and consultation that is taking
place, you can make comments on any or all of the issues or raise new
concerns. q There is no set format for submitting your
comments to the ACT Government, your comments can be as short or as long as
you wish, and you can cover a multitude of concerns or simply make one or two
dot points. q Start by saying that your comments are in
response to the issues paper on Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex people in the ACT. q You can supply you name and contact details
–or
you can choose to be anonymous, if you are happy to discuss your comments
further, you should mention this. i Who is Good Process? Good Process is a group of individuals concerned
to ensure that the GLBTI people of Visit http://www.nwjc.org.au/good_process_act/
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