A Sydney conference featuring radical Islamic speakers is selling separate male and female tickets after a tribunal ruled last week that gender segregation is illegal at public events.
The United Muslims of Australia event Quest for Success, to be held at Sydney Showground, advertises male tickets for $70 and female tickets for $70.
Journalist Alison Bevege was successful in a sex discrimination complaint after she was directed to sit behind men at a lecture by radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Speakers at the Sydney Olympic Park conference in May will include Hamza Tzortzis, a UK radical who condoned child rape on a previous visit to Australia.
A Sydney Showground spokesman said police checks would take place for the event, and “if they say it’s above board, we will abide by that”.
A spokesman for the Justice Department, which covers the Anti-Discrimination Board, said it was up to “an individual to make a complaint”.
United Muslims For Australia conference organisers did not respond to questions on how they will arrange the ticketed seating.