What sort of message does it send when the Queensland legal system accepts an unwanted homosexual advance as a provocation for murder?

Queensland's current common law and legislative approach that permits this defence is outmoded and retrograde.

The Queensland Law Reform Commission Report of 2008 did not make any recommendations on this issue.

Nonetheless, the report went so far as to question whether a 'non-violent homosexual advance' could ever justify murder.

But despite moves in other states, this defence was used in Queensland in 2009.