Queensland will explore all legal options after a court found the statewide ban against carrying religious weapons on school grounds to be racial discrimination.
Queensland law prohibited religious members from carrying the blade on school grounds, saying it was unreasonable to “physically possess a knife in a school for genuine religious purposes”. “Carrying a kirpan as a symbol of a religious commitment would, at least ordinarily, constitute a use of the knife for a lawful purpose – namely, religious observance,” the court found.
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