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I’m aware that I live in a bubble, believe me. It didn’t create itself and it didn’t happen overnight. My media consumption (social and otherwise) is tailored to within an inch of its life. Interactions with family members and heterosexual friends are strictly regulated. Most of my friends are, in fact, ‘gay’. My workplace is […]
Tags: children, family, IVF, parenting
31 Aug 2018 /
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A new report has highlighted again that children raised in same-sex families or by single parents are equal to those children raised by heterosexual parents. Nanette Gartrell, the lead author of the report, began recruiting families into her long term study in the late 1970’s and early 1980s. They’ve previously reported on the kids well-being […]
Tags: children
26 Aug 2018 |
Filed under Health & Wellbeing,Life |
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A new review of multiple studies into the well being of children raised by same sex parents has concluded that there is no difference between them and children raised by opposite sex parents. Published in the Medical Journal of Australia the researchers found that children raised in same-sex parented families did as well emotionally, socially and […]
Tags: children, Dads 4 Kids, Marriage, Marriage Alliance, marriage equality, rainbow families, Same Sex Marriage, same sex parents, study
23 Oct 2017 |
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Jo Hirst, author of the children’s book The Gender Fairy, has responded to the Coalition for Marriage using her book in their latest advertising campaign. In a statement Hirst said the lives of young transgender children should not be brought into the marriage debate. “This survey is about who will have the right to enter […]
Tags: Cella White, children, Coalition for Marriage, Jo Hirst, kids, Telethon Kids Institute, The Gender Fairy, trans*, transgender, youth
19 Sep 2017 |
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Labor leader Bill Shorten has labeled the Liberal party’s plan to push forward with a plebiscite, and then potentially a postal plebiscite, as “dumb and dumber” ideas. Yesterday following a crisis meeting Liberal MPs overwhelmingly voted to maintain their current policy of holding a compulsory, but non-binding plebiscite, on marriage equality. The party committed to […]
Tags: children, dumb and dumber, Facebook teenager, gay, gay marriage, Intersex, Labor, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, LGBTIQA, Liberal, Marriage, marriage equality, plebiscite, postal plebiscite, Same Sex Marriage, transgender
8 Aug 2017 |
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Black Swan State Theatre Company’s upcoming production will take audiences on a journey into Coma Land, a world between life and death. Created by Perth playwright Will O’Mahony (Tonsils + Tweezers, The Mars Project, Great White), Coma Land follows the story of child genius and piano prodigy Boon trapped in this bizarre new world trying to wake […]
Tags: Black Swan State Theatre Company, children, coma, coma land, Parents, Play, Theatre, Will O'Mahony
3 Jul 2017 |
Filed under Arts,Culture,Performing Arts |
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Jurassic Creatures has opened at Crown Pyramid and it’s promises to fulfill a dinosaur enthusiasts wildest dreams. To test the claim we took the biggest dinosaur obsessives we know to see the show. Benjamin, who is almost three, lives and breathes dinosaurs, so he came along to the interactive exhibition as our guest with his six […]
Tags: children, Crown Pyramid, family, Jurassic Creatures, kids
8 Apr 2017 |
Filed under Life |
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A new Netflix children’s program starring the legendary Julie Andrews features a young character who identifies as non-binary and gender neutral. Julie’s Greenroom aims to teach children about the performing arts with Andrews, Hollywood stars and a cast of The Jim Henson Company’s puppet kids. Riley, the auburn-haired gender neutral member of the puppet cast, is […]
Tags: children, gender neutral, Julie Andrews, julie's greenroom, non binary, performing arts, tv
28 Mar 2017 |
Filed under Culture |
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Labor Senator for Western Australia Louise Pratt gave a stirring and personal speech in the Senate yesterday, during debate on the Government’s now defunct plebiscite bill. The out politician and mother has been a vocal opponent of the plebiscite since its inception under the Abbott Liberal government, and yesterday she spoke from her own experience […]
Tags: AusPol, children, Families, family, Labor, Louise Pratt, Marriage, marriage equality, plebiscite
8 Nov 2016 |
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The Daily Telegraph has published an opinion piece from a mother who was upset when she met, what she presumed to be, a transgender person working at her local Woolworths. Niamh Kavanagh shared with the newspaper’s readers how she recently became flustered when she met a woman with a deeper voice working on the checkout. […]
Tags: children, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Niamh Kavanagh, queer, trans*, transgender
2 Oct 2016 |
Filed under Graeme Watson,Opinion |
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