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LGBTIQ+ advocates and conversion therapy survivors have welcomed the ACT’s ban on conversion practices, which passed the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The ACT has become the second Australian jurisdiction to address the issue, following Queensland’s legislation earlier this month. Spokesperson for LGBTIQ+ advocacy group just.equal and Canberra resident, Ivan Hinton-Teoh, said the ACT’s legislation is ‘far […]
Tags: ACT, Anna Brown, chris csabs, conversion therapy, Equality Australia, isabel munford, Ivan Hinton-Teoh, just.equal, Queensland
28 Aug 2020 /
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Anna Brown, the CEO of Equality Australia has labeled the Morrison government’s latest draft of the religious discrimination bill a piece of legislation that will divide Australian communities. Brown says the latest version of the legislation, that was revealed by Attorney General Christian Porter this morning, will provide protections for people who intimidate others through […]
Tags: Anna Brown, Christian Porter, Equality Australia, religious discrimination bill, Scott Morrison
10 Dec 2019 |
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Equality Australia’s CEO Anna Brown has been listed in the The Australian Financial Reviews‘ 100 Women of Influence and been awarded the named the winner of the Social Enterprise and Non Profit category. Prior to taking up her leadership role at Equality Australia Brown worked at the Human Rights Law Centre and was a leading voice […]
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23 Oct 2019 |
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Opposition leader Bill Shorten is set to announce plans to outlaw gay conversion therapy if Labor are elected to government. A media release from a trio of Labor MP’s; Mark Dreyfus, Louise Pratt and Catherine King, announced the policy. “We will work with survivors and advocates on a range of strategies to end this insidious […]
Tags: Anna Brown, Bill SHorten, Chris Scabs, conversion therapy, Election 2019, Scott Morrison
23 Apr 2019 |
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A new organisation that will fight for LGBTIQ+ rights in Australia has been launched with the Equality campaign that successfully brought marriage reform to Australia rebranding as Equality Australia. Anna Brown, one of the leaders of the marriage equality campaign, will leave her current position at the Human Rights Law Centre to serve as the […]
Tags: Anna Brown, binary, Equality Australia, Scott Morrison
8 Dec 2018 |
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A new report released today outlines the harm caused to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people by the practice of conversion therapy, and its pervasiveness in Australia’s faith communities. Preventing Harm, Promoting Justice: Responding to LGBT conversion therapy in Australia examines the lived experience of 15 LGBT Australians who have struggled with their sexuality or […]
Tags: Anna Brown, conversion therapy, faith, Human Rights Law Centre, la trobe, La Trobe University, Religion
15 Oct 2018 |
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Transgender Victorians will now be able to stay married to the person they love when they change the gender on their birth certificate with the Andrews Government passing new laws. A similar bill is being introduced in the NSW parliament. The change follows the passage of marriage equality late last year, and is part of […]
Tags: Anna Brown, Jaime Paige, John Quigley, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Sally Goldner, transgender
24 May 2018 |
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The Northern Territory has this week passed a new bill that will allow same-gender couples to adopt children in the Top End. The Adoption of Children Legislation Amendment (Equality) Bill 2017 passed through the territory’s sole house of parliament yesterday, bringing the NT in line with the rest of the nation. Previously, same-gender couples in […]
Tags: Adoption, Anna Brown, dale wakefield, family, Northern Territory
14 Mar 2018 |
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Queensland has become the first state to introduce legislation to remove discrimination against transgender people relating to the marriage act and gender recognition. Yesterday the state’s Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath introduced the Birth, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill into the Queensland parliament. D’Ath said the bill was an important and necessary amendment to ensure true marriage […]
Tags: Anna Brown, John Quigley, law reform, transgender, Yvette D'Arth
8 Mar 2018 |
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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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