Peter Gilbert da Conceição Foss KC (born 24 March 1946 in England) is a former Australian politician, who represented the Liberal Party.
These included a formal statement from parliament saying it "disapproved of sexual relations between persons of the same sex", and making it a crime to "promote or encourage homosexual behaviour" in schools or for "public purpose".
Impacts of the amendments included the banning of a safe sex education campaign in schools, and the removal of police advertisements to recruit openly LGBT people, over concerns about the legality of advertising public service employment to LGBT people.
The ambiguity of what constituted promotion or encouragement of homosexuality caused many issues, such as concern from school teachers regarding how they could offer mental-health support to LGBT youth without breaking the law.
The tobacco taxes collected supposedly to support a "Quit" campaign had been systematically syphoned off for other budget items.