Sydney Star Observer – Ian Gould
Tasmanian activists have welcomed a decision by the state?s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner to investigate election campaign advertisements that lobbyists claim incited hatred of the transgender community.
The office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner announced this week it would look into a complaint by transgender activist Martine Delaney about the half-page newspaper ads that appeared in the lead-up to Tasmanian elections last month.
As Sydney Star Observer reported at the time, the advertisements claimed the Tasmanian Greens? progressive transgender and intersex policies would ?ruin our families and societies?.
The ads were placed by a Tasmanian farmer who allegedly told news website Crikey he belonged to conservative religious organisation the Exclusive Brethren.