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The NSW Government has announced that it will establish a Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes, with the Honourable Justice John Sackar as Commissioner to lead the Inquiry. The decision to establish a judicial inquiry was first announced in November last year, following the publication of a damning parliamentary report released mid-2021. Premier Domonic […]
Tags: ACON, Alex Greenwich, assault, Dominic Perrottet, hate crime, John Sackar, murder, new south wales, Nicholas Parkhill, Special Commission of Inquiry, Sydney
16 Apr 2022 /
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The lower house of the New South Wales parliament passed a motion this week declaring support for transgender people. The show of support comes as the parliament prepared to debate legislation from One Nation leader Mark Latham that will make illegal to discuss sexuality and gender in schools. The motion passed in the lower house […]
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23 Oct 2020 |
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Advocates for marriage equality have welcomed the passage of Senator Dean Smith’s marriage bill through the senate. Gathering outside parliament just after the vote was held, politicians from all sides of the chamber said they were overjoyed that after more than a decade of campaigning, and a long drawn out postal survey process, the parliament […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, AME, Anna Brown, Australian Marriage Equality, just.equal, Louise Pratt, Marriage, Penny Wong, Rodney Croome
29 Nov 2017 |
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One of the major driving forces behind the ‘Yes’ campaign in Australia’s postal survey on marriage equality have responded to the successful ‘Yes’ outcome. The Equality Campaign have described the result as a “historic milestone for Australians and a victory for equality and fairness that sends a powerful message to Federal Parliament to legislate for […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, Anna Brown, AusPol, Dean Smith, marriage equality, plebisite, postal survey, Senate, senator dean smith, the equality campaign, Tiernan Brady, yes
15 Nov 2017 |
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The Equality Campaign has rejected the marriage equality bill put forward by Senator James Paterson as nothing more than a license to discriminate. “This is not a marriage equality bill. It’s about enshrining discrimination and taking Australia back decades,” said Anna Brown of the Equality Campaign. “Australians are voting to make our country a fairer […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, AME, Anna Brown, Australian Marriage Equality, Equality Campaign, James Paterson, just.equal, Marriage, marriage equality, Same Sex Marriage, traditional marriage
13 Nov 2017 |
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The Greens have voiced their support for Liberal Senator Dean Smith’s private members bill that would bring in marriage equality in Australia. While the results of the government’s non-compulsory non-binding postal survey on the issue won’t be known until Wednesday morning, it is widely predicted that the ‘Yes’ campaign will be successful in showing that […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, Dean Smith, richard di natale, Rodney Croome, The Greens
11 Nov 2017 |
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Advocates on both side of the debate have thanked their supporters as the Australian Bureau of Statistics closes the national survey on marriage. The Australian Bureau of Statistics Office in Perth was the final place that survey forms could be submitted, it stopped taking forms at 4:30pm today. Earlier the government organisation revealed that 12.6 […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, Anna Brown, AusPol, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Marriage Equality, Debate, Equality Campaign, gay, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Lyle Shelton, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, queer, trans*, transgender
7 Nov 2017 |
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed the latest count on the number of marriage survey forms returned. A whopping 12.6 million Australians have returned their forms, representing 78.5 per cent of the eligible voters. The response rate is higher than the United Kingdom’s Brexit poll, the Irish referendum on marriage and the last US […]
Tags: ABS, Alex Greenwich, AME, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Marriage Equality, Coalition for Marriage, Freedom Team, Marriage, marriage survey, postal survey
7 Nov 2017 |
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Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi has argued that any legislation to allow same sex marriage will have to be carefully considered by the parliament, and may take some time before it could actually become law. Last week Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull restated his belief that if the marriage postal survey returned a ‘yes’ vote, the […]
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26 Oct 2017 |
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The Equality Campaign has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today that a further 800,000 Australians have returned their marriage surveys. The ABS has released the latest return estimates from the 16 million survey forms sent out last month. With only 10 days remaining until the recommended deadline to get the […]
Tags: ABS, Alex Greenwich, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bisexual, gay, gay marriage, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, marriage equality, marriage postal survey, queer, Same Sex Marriage, Shirleene Robinson, traditional marriage, trans*, transgender
17 Oct 2017 |
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