Veteran journalist George Negus has described Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s continuing stance against same sex marriage as a lost opportunity. Speaking to the ABC’s Katya Quigley on radio station 720Sydney Negus said he couldn’t understand the Prime Minister’s opposition, ‘I don’t know why, she can’t claim her religious beliefs stop her from believing in it…unless [...]
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reaffirmed her position against same sex marriage following US President Barrack Obama’s historic declaration of support. Speaking on ABC Radio this morning the Prime Minister said, ‘I’ve made my position clear and that’s the position I’ll take into the parliament.’ Greens’ human rights spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young responded to the [...]
On May 2, a special double sitting of State Parliament endorsed Dean Smith as the man who will replace the late Judith Adams as Liberal Senator for Western Australia. Smith will be sworn in to the Senate on May 8th. Dean Smith has been a member of the Liberal Party since he was 17, and [...]
Under the reforms announced by Federal Minister for Ageing Mark Butler, LGBTI people are to be included as a special needs group under the Aged Care Act, with funding of $2.5m set aside for LGBTI training of the aged care workforce – a move welcomed by LGBTI Health advocacy groups across Australia. Jude Comfort from [...]
Outpost Choir are asking the world to collaborate with them to sing out against homophobia and transphobia in time for IDAHO on May 17th. The brainchild of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian choir, the idea is to compile video submissions submitted from around the world to create a virtual chorus of voices celebrating pride and diversity [...]
The Australian Christian Lobby has come out fighting against the Australian Press Council accusing it of suppressing freedom of speech. Earlier this week the Press Council ruled that an article by Rev Dr Margaret Court was incorrect in asserting that sexuality was a choice and that Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper failed to provide appropriate balance [...]
The Federal Senate Inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010 has released final figures on the submissions received by the closing date of April 2. In total the committee received 75,000 submissions, with approximately 44,000 submissions in favour of marriage equality and 31,000 against. The committee noted that the majority of the submissions were [...]
Federal Greens leader Bob Brown has resigned as leader of the Australian Greens and will be leaving the Senate in coming months. Brown has been one of the highest profile openly gay parliamentarians during his sixteen years in office. Greens and parliamentary colleagues were told this morning. So far Senator Brown has not given a [...]
Catholic Cardinal George Pell has apologised to the Jewish community for comments made during the Q&A debate on ABC TV on Monday night. The Cardinal referred to the Jewish people as intellectually inferior to the Egyptians and Persians as well as apparently forgetting the Holocaust by saying that no people in history had been punished [...]
A public hearing for the House of Representatives’ Inquiry into the Marriage Equality Bill of 2012 and the Marriage Amendment Bill is being held in Sydney today. The House’s Social Policy and Legal affairs committee is conducting the inquiry to consider legal and technical aspects of the two Bills, and will be compiling a report [...]
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