On Tuesday 24th September, SA Parliament passed legislation banning conversion practices that attempt to change or suppress a persons sexuality or gender identity. This represents years of collective advocacy by survivors, LGBTIQA+ communities and allies to put an end to…
Conversion Practices Legislation Passes Lower House
The Conversion Practices Bill was passed through the Lower House yesterday and will be brought to the Upper House in a fortnight. SARAA would like to thank the survivors and allies that turned up yesterday to show support. A particularly…
South Australia to Introduce Legislation Banning Conversion Practices
The SA government has just announced it will introduce a bill banning conversion practices. Survivors have fought long and hard for this reform, which goes some way towards protecting LGBTQA+ people from practices that seek to change who they are…
Conversion practices in Parliamentary Question Time
The Hon Robert Simms MLC has called on the Government to progress it’s commitment to ensure conversion practices do not occur in South Australia. Noting the federal government’s failure to properly count LGBTI Australians in the Census, Simms queried whether…
Collectively bringing an end to conversion practices
Did you see the article in The Advertiser on our amazing board member, Jace Reh and their experience of surviving conversion practices in a small country town in South Australia? You can check it out on our Conversion Practices page,…