I rise to speak to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Gender Identity) Amendment Bill. This bill seeks to change the way personal biographical information is registered, stored and retrieved by the state and its citizens within South Australia. My understanding of the reasons for this bill is that transgender and intersex people may often…
I rise to speak to the Adoption (Review) Amendment Bill. I indicate that I will be supporting the bulk of this bill as per the Liberal Party position. There are many aspects of this bill which have merit and should be welcomed. These include the sensible reforms in the areas of adult adoption, retention of…
I rise to speak to the Relationships Register (No 1) Bill. This bill underpins the mechanics of further bills currently before this place which establish a new kind of qualifying relationship for parenting eligibility when it comes to adoption and surrogacy. In the first instance, all of these measures were in one big, complex bill,…