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ITC#3: Rodney Croome on Croome v Tasmania
In 1993, Nicholas Toonen and Rodney Croome took Australia to the UN Human Rights Committee, on the basis Tasmania’s anti-gay laws. After the Committee found Australia in breach of its international human rights obligations, the Commonwealth Parliament legislated to render the Tasmanian laws inoperative. But Tasmania still didn’t repeal the laws, so Croome and Toonen went to the High Court…