Exit Hatzistergos trailing smoke

http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/topics-for-the-post-mortem-on-the-poll-20110401-1crv2.html

* I'm told Gemunu Kumarasinhe is an impeccable dresser, a flamboyant and sometimes theatrical courtroom performer, as well as a barrister who enjoys a reputation for fighting hard on behalf of his clients in matters before Local and District Courts on the NSW North Coast.

Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, it's 2011 not 1911!

In what can only be described as flabbergasting,

the NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, backs a NSW law that allows private schools to expel gay students simply for being gay.

Hatzistergos described the 30-year-old law as necessary "to maintain a sometimes delicate balance between protecting individuals from unlawful discrimination while allowing people to practise their own beliefs".

A relic of the Wran era when homosexuality was still a crime, the law exempts private schools from any obligation to enrol or deal fairly with students who are homosexual. An expulsion requires neither disruption, harassment nor even the flaunting of sexuality. Being homosexual is enough.

Read the full report in today's Sydney Morning Herald here.