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===Tasmania=== Croome was the founding president and long-term board member of the Tasmanian LGBT support organisation, 'Working It Out' as well as serving on various other similar organisations and had been in a leading role in the establishing challenging-homophobia education in Tasmanian state schools and in the [[Tasmanian Police]], as well as the instituting of anti-discrimination laws in Tasmania.<ref name=RC/> He also fronted the successful campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, which until 1 May 1997 was a criminal offence punishable by up to 25 years in jail.<ref name=ssnine/> That campaign saw Tasmanian activists take their case to the United Nations (''[[Toonen v Australia]]''), the Federal Government and the High Court.<ref name=RC/> In 1997 in the case of ''Croome v Tasmania'', Croome applied to the High Court of Australia for a ruling as to whether the Tasmanian laws were inconsistent with the federal ''[[Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994]]''. The Tasmanian Government repealed the relevant Criminal Code provisions after failing in its attempts to have the matter struck out.<ref>{{cite journal |title=From conflict to convergence: the evolution of Tasmanian anti-discrimination law |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AJHR/2001/6.html#fn151 |journal=Australian Journal of Human Rights |author=Gus Bernardi |year=2001 |access-date=2009-06-25|quote=Once standing was given the Tasmanian PLP Government did not wait for a High Court challenge and passed the Criminal Code Amendment Act 1997 which repealed the anti-gay provisions within the Tasmanian Criminal Code.}}</ref> In 2009, Croome was named one of the 25 most influential gay Australians by readers of the website samesame.com.au.<ref name=ssnine>{{cite web|title=Samsame 25|url=http://www.samesame.com.au/25/2009|publisher=Samesame|access-date=31 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206023523/http://www.samesame.com.au/25/2009/|archive-date=6 February 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Croome called for reviews of blood donors processes, saying the screening process of blood donors did not question heterosexuals on their safe sex practices, but singled out gay and bisexual men as high risk: "It's really time for the Red Cross to change its policy and focus on whether donors have safe or unsafe sex rather than the gender of the person they have sex with."<ref>{{cite web|title='Discriminatory' gay blood donor ban challenged|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/discriminatory-gay-blood-donor-ban-challenged/2005/08/02/1122748633535.html|website=ABC News|date=2 August 2005 |publisher=ABC|access-date=15 May 2017}}</ref>
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