We will protect genuinely charitable work while cracking-down on tax avoidance and religious secrecy

— Religious organisations should be open and transparent about their activities in the same way as Australian corporations

— For-profit businesses that claim charitable status even though they are not engaged in charitable activity should not receive tax exemptions, even if they are owned by a religious institution (costings provided here)

— End exceptions to our Equal Opportunity laws that permit religious organisations to discriminate

— Enforce mandatory reporting laws for admissions disclosed in religious confession

— Oppose the Federal Government’s Religious Freedom Bill that will allow people to actively discriminate against others based on their religious views.

Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office Costings of my policy to remove ‘advancing religion’ as a charitable status: