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PM to introduce laws to stop schools excluding gay students

No students will be excluded from any school on the basis of their sexuality under new law changes the Morrison government plans to bring in.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP

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No school will be allowed to exclude students based on their sexuality under changes to laws the Morrison government plans to bring in.

A review of religious freedoms included a recommendation to allow religious schools to discriminate against students on the basis of their sexuality.

But the government is rejecting that, and it is strengthening discrimination laws to remove any opportunity for schools to discriminate.

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