Sep 23, 2026 · 20 min · 12 segments
How do laws change in Australia? Through Rodney Croome’s campaigns for human rights and marriage equality, learn how personal stories, community action, courts and parliament can help change the law…
The Goods and Services Tax, GST, debate has people arguing about a new 10% tax.
GST is in place and apparently operating with few glitches.
That's 8.40 today.
Are you serious?
I don't agree with it.
I'm not happy about it.
But you don't have any choice about it.
The state passes strong anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ people.
It took nearly a decade of pressure, conversations, court cases, and people refusing to disappear.
For Rodney, when the law changed, it wasn't just policy It changed what felt possible
It was a sense of great achievement, a sense not only that we were free, but a sense that anything was possible.
If Tasmania could change these old laws, could get rid of them completely, then this, it felt like the sky was the limit.
I had then and still have a very strong faith in my fellow citizens.
By mobilizing them, by gathering all the voices in support of change, uh, we can in fact change the law.
[upbeat music]
The Goods and Services Tax, GST, debate has people arguing about a new 10% tax.
GST is in place and apparently operating with few glitches.
That's 8.40 today.
Are you serious?
I don't agree with it.
I'm not happy about it.
But you don't have any choice about it.
The state passes strong anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ people.
It took nearly a decade of pressure, conversations, court cases, and people refusing to disappear.
For Rodney, when the law changed, it wasn't just policy It changed what felt possible
It was a sense of great achievement, a sense not only that we were free, but a sense that anything was possible.
If Tasmania could change these old laws, could get rid of them completely, then this, it felt like the sky was the limit.
I had then and still have a very strong faith in my fellow citizens.
By mobilizing them, by gathering all the voices in support of change, uh, we can in fact change the law.
[upbeat music]
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