Senator RICE (Victoria—Deputy Australian Greens Whip) (14:15): The Prime Minister said he was going to take action to protect LGBTIQ students, yet the only action we have seen is an inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission that can't report before 2023. Students who started high school in 2018 will have graduated before the inquiry reports. Minister Stoker on radio this morning was very clear that this bill will continue to allow schools to sack teachers on the basis of their sexuality and gender. Is this yet another time where the Prime Minister has lied to save his political skin? The PRESIDENT: Senator Abetz on a point of order? Senator Abetz: That clearly needs to be withdrawn. It's a reflection on the Prime Minister. The PRESIDENT: Senator McKim on the point of order? Senator McKim: Yes, just briefly on the point of order: Senator Rice was asking a question. She was not making an assertion. The PRESIDENT: There is no protection merely in asking a question if something is a direct imputation against the member of another place. I will ask you to withdraw the last part of the question and then I will allow the minister to answer. Senator RICE: I will withdraw and reword it— The PRESIDENT: No, just withdraw, thank you, Senator Rice. The Attorney-General has the call. Senator CASH: The Religious Discrimination Bill would only prohibit discrimination on the basis of religious belief or activity. Its exemptions only operate in relation to that prohibition. It will not in any way affect the current exemptions that religious bodies have and, as I said, that the Labor Party supported. In fact, Mr Dreyfus, when he was the Attorney-General, recognised and we all voted for the fact that when changes were made to the Sex Discrimination Act the exemptions would continue to apply to religious bodies. In relation to students, the Prime Minister and I have made it very clear to the ALRC that we have a very clear expectation that no student should be expelled from a school because of their sexual identity. The PRESIDENT: Senator Rice, just before you ask your second supplementary question, you did need to withdraw. However, I should have let you restate the question. I apologise for that, but let's move to your second supplementary.