Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
ONLINE TWITTER @star_observerISSUE 1108 FACEBOOK Star ObserverFriday 27 January 2012starobserver.
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Est.
1979
‘Gay panic’
defence to go
>> QUEENSLAND
DREW SHELDRICK
The Bligh Government will...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
ONLINE TWITTER @star_observerISSUE 1108 FACEBOOK Star ObserverFriday 27 January 2012starobserver.
com.
au
Est.
1979
‘Gay panic’
defence to go
>> QUEENSLAND
DREW SHELDRICK
The Bligh Government will change the
state’s Criminal Code to remove doubts
about how and when a partial defence
involving a sexual advance can be used,
essentially ending the so-called “gay
panic” defence.
There has been continued pressure
on the Government to close the legal
loophole after a substantial campaign
by Catholic priest Father Paul Kelly,
whose change.
org petition received
more than 20,000 signatories.
Attorney-General Paul Lucas
said the Government received a
recommendation from a special
committee established in November to
consider the matter.
He said the Criminal Code
currently contains a partial defence
of provocation which could be used
to reduce a conviction from murder
to manslaughter where a defendant
claimed th
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