Stop the Greens'
"Conversion Practices" Bill

URGENT: Ask the Tasmanian Parliament to protect young people and religious freedom

Imagine your child comes to you wanting to talk about their sexuality or gender, looking for your guidance as their parent. Or a friend, struggling with theirs, asks you for advice or to pray with them about it. Under the Tasmanian Greens’ draft Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026, that ordinary moment of care and conversation could be treated as a crime. If a child is involved, it could be labelled child abuse in law.

You’d expect a bill like this to be about stopping coercion and genuine abuse. But read the text closely, and this is the most severe conversion practices law Australia has seen, going well beyond the South Australian and New South Wales laws it claims to follow. Those laws require proof of serious harm. This one doesn’t require proof of any harm at all.

This draft requires no program, no pattern, no coercion and no harm. A single conversation or prayer is enough. Consent doesn’t matter either: an adult who freely asks anyone for advice or prayer is still caught.

Responding to misinformation

Recently, three incorrect claims have been made by supporters of the legislation. Read more about each claim:

False claim 1 – The draft implements the Law Reform Institutes’ recommendations

False claim 2 – The draft is limited to coercive and harmful acts.

False claim 3 – The draft is the same as other states legislation.

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To: The Premier, Speaker and Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly

We, the undersigned residents of Tasmania, draw to the attention of the House our deep concern about the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 proposed by the Greens.

As drafted, a single conversation or prayer about a person’s sexuality or gender identity, requested by an adult, or one loving conversation between a parent and their own child about theirs, could be treated as a crime, and could even be classified in law as child abuse. This is true even where nobody is harmed and nobody complains.

This also leaves churches, synagogues and mosques open to child abuse redress claims over a single prayer, with no requirement to prove any harm occurred.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to reject this Bill in its current form, and to ensure any future legislation does not criminalise prayer, pastoral care or parents who are doing their job.