The laws would ban the practices, which target members of the LGBTIQA+ community by seeking to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Under the laws, perpetrators convicted of causing serious harm through the performance of conversion practices will face up to five years in jail, with people convicted of taking or arranging to have someone taken interstate, or engaging a person from outside of the state to provide a conversion practice facing up to three years in jail, a fine of up to $15,000 or both.

The laws have been modelled on those passed earlier this year in New South Wales, and makes clear that discussions between children and their parents, as well as general expressions of religious belief and religious teachings do not constitute conversion practices.