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LGBT rights in Tasmania
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Australian state of Tasmania have most of the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts - with the notable exception of access to marriage for same-sex couples. Tasmania's law reforms since the 1990s with respect to LGBT rights have been described as perhaps the most extensive and noteworthy in the world.〔(Rodney Croome: A History of Gay Law Reform in Tasmania )〕
==Laws regarding homosexuality==
(詳細はHomosexuality in Tasmania )〕 For several years in the 1980s, the Tasmanian Parliament refused to pass laws decriminalising private same-sex sexual acts,〔(Homosexual law reform )〕 resulting in a local resident (Nicholas Toonen) bringing a human rights complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, resulting in the committee ruling in Toonen's favour. The Committee noted that "the criminalization of homosexual practices cannot be considered a reasonable means or proportionate measure to achieve the aim of preventing the spread of AIDS/HIV," further noting that "The Australian Government observes that statutes criminalizing homosexual activity tend to impede public health programmes by driving underground many of the people at the risk of infection."〔(Toonen v. Australia University of Minnesota )〕
In response to the Tasmanian Parliament’s refusal to repeal the offending laws, the Federal government passed the ''Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994 - Section 4'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Commonwealth Consolidated Acts )〕 legalising sexual activity between consenting adults throughout Australia and prohibiting the making of laws that arbitrarily interfere with the sexual conduct of adults in private. In 1997 in the case of ''Croome v Tasmania'', Croome applied to the High Court of Australia for a ruling as to whether the Tasmanian laws were inconsistent with the Federal Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act. The Tasmanian Government repealed the relevant Criminal Code provisions after failing in its attempts to have the matter struck out. As a result, it was in May 1997 that Tasmania repealed its anti-homosexuality laws.〔(Gay law reform in Australian States and territories )〕 The age of consent in Tasmania is 17 years and is equal for both heterosexual forms of sex and homosexual forms of sex.〔(Age of consent laws in Australia: Government source )〕
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