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- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- AdoptionN/A
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Conversion TherapyVaries by Region
Public Opinion
"Should Society Accept Homosexuality?"
Australia ranks #5 out of 39 countries surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 4, 2013)
(18%) No
Yes (79%)
History
Current status
(since Mar 31, 1994)
(since Mar 31, 1994)
Legal
Homosexual activity federally decriminalized
Current status
(since Dec 9, 2017)
(since Dec 9, 2017)
Legal
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Australia since 9 December 2017. The legislation to allow same-sex marriage, the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017, passed the Australian Parliament on 7 December 2017 and received royal assent from the Governor-General the following day.
Current status
(since Apr 20, 2018)
(since Apr 20, 2018)
Legal
Adoption is not a federal law and is state-based. Since April 2018, same-sex couples can adopt children in all jurisdictions within Australia.
Current status
(since Jun 2007)
(since Jun 2007)
N/A
This is not decided at the Federal level, but at the territorial government level. Some territories allow it, others do not.
Current status
(since Jun 28, 2013)
(since Jun 28, 2013)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Current status
(since Nov 24, 1992)
(since Nov 24, 1992)
Legal
Current status
(since Sep 16, 2016)
(since Sep 16, 2016)
Equal
Following the amendment in the Queensland Criminal Code, the age of consent is now equal across all states and territories of Australia.
Current status
(since 1996)
(since 1996)
Banned (1-year deferral)
The Red Cross controls blood donations in Australia and it has a ban on MSMs active in the last year
Current status
Varies by Region
Under federal law that made this practice illegal. Illegal in the state of victoria
Banned
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Western Australia
Ambiguous
LGBT Rights by State
View the LGBT laws in each individual state of Australia.
- Western Australia
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Territory)
- Australian Capital Territory (Territory)
- Northern Territory (Territory)
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