The former Wallabies star had his multi-million dollar contract terminated earlier this year, after posting “hell awaits” for “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, idolaters” on his Instagram account.
Ruby Australia dismissed Folau for being in breach of their Professional Players’ Code of Conduct.
According to the news organisation Reuters, the proposed legislation would allow Australians to express their faith outside of the workplace, as long as there is no financial damage towards their employer.
Following the release of a draft of the bill last Thursday, Australia’s Attorney General Christian Porter said: “Australia has a strong anti-discrimination framework with specific protections for people against discrimination on the basis of their age, sex, race and disability.”
He continued: “This draft bill released today extends those protections to provide protection for people against discrimination on the basis of their religion or religious belief, or lack thereof.”
The bill would see businesses with a turnover of more than $50m be unable to enforce limitations on a person’s religious expression in private, unless that company can prove it would cause “unjustifiable financial hardship to the business”.
A business would need to prove that a limitation on their freedom of speech was necessary to avoid this unjustifiable financial…
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