The Albanese Government has granted special deductible gift recipient (DGR) status to Equality Australia, an explicitly anti-Christian lobby group. It comes after the organisation was rejected four times through bureaucratic processes. The Government has legislated to override those decisions, revealing ideological bias towards a group that campaigns against religious freedom.
DGR has always been reserved for organisations with recognised charitable purposes that deliver a public benefit; things like hospitals, homelessness services, food banks, and disaster relief. It isn’t just a symbolic gesture that holds no weight in our tax system. It materially changes an organisation’s ability to fundraise, backed by taxpayers.
Equality Australia actively campaigns against religious freedom because they think that a biblical worldview on human sexuality is discriminatory. They have urged the removal of religious exemptions in anti-discrimination laws, arguing that these exemptions protect the discriminators. It is their view that the discriminators are Christians who believe in marriage between a male and a female, and Christian schools who teach this biblical truth.
Equality Australia doesn’t just oppose religion, they also campaign for ‘gender affirmation’; a cult-like ideology that leads to bodily mutilation. I’ve spoken to young adults who have tried to change their gender and are now living with horrific health complications that will affect them for life. Thousands of children in Australia are on drugs to ‘block’ puberty because of ‘gender affirmation’. These numbers are not an exaggeration. Queensland and the Northern Territory have already withdrawn puberty blockers from the public health system. Other states must follow suit.
Equality Australia supports laws and policies that elevate ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ as pre-eminent protected attributes at the expense of biological sex, the protection of women and children in sport and female-only spaces, as well as freedom of religion and speech.
The Government has gone rogue in its support for Equality Australia. Please explain Prime Minister!
