Rodney Croome

But the reason it goes through those steps is important.

It gives parliamentarians time to ask, "Is this change needed? Who will it affect? What evidence supports it? What might go wrong? And can the bill be made better before it becomes law?" Rodney Croome has spent decades campaigning for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people, and he says people sometimes imagine the law-making process as something far away from ordinary life.

But often it starts with a story that helps someone understand the human impact of a law.

Don't make it a lecture.