A Nebraskan politician has claimed that there are students in the state’s public education system who identify as cats and dogs, and request kitty litter trays to be added to the school’s bathrooms. Republican state senator Bruce Bostelman brought up the issue during a education debate in the state’s senate which was broadcast live on […]
The ABC’s Media Watch program has cast it’s eye over the Courier Mail‘s recent claims that students at a Brisbane school are identifying as cats, and described the report as “the craziest” and “flimsiest” story of the week. Host Paul Barry raised his eyebrows at other media outlets that repeated the claim, including The Daily […]
Students identifying as cats, political leaders claiming they’re not woke, and attempts to link the gay community to a horrific murder. What do they have in common, they’re all stories that appeared in News Corp publications that have been questioned about how true they actually are, or as in the last case, proven to be […]
OPINION Forget what you know about the history of LGBTI rights in Australia, and discount a large chunk of your own lived experience. If you read the latest piece from News Corp’s Des Houghton, it can simply be brushed away. Less than a week ago, the government announced it’s plan for a $122 million postal […]
The Australian Press Council has ruled that Brisbane’s Courier Mail coverage of the death of trans-woman Mayang Prasetyo was gratuitous. The newspaper came under fire in October last year when it reported on the murder of Prasetyo by her partner Marcus Volke. The newspaper ran the story under the headline ‘Monster Chef and the SheMale’. […]
Brisbane parents Yolanda Bogert and Guy Kershaw found a unique way to show support for their son’s gender transition. In the ‘Births’ section of The Courier Mail on Tuesday, they issued a retraction on a 1995 announcement that they had produced a daughter, noting that the announcement should have been for a son. “In 1995 […]
Brisbane’s Courier Mail has issued an apology for its coverage of the murder of transgender woman Mayang Prasetyo. The newspaper attracted outrage when it published the story under the headline ‘Monster Chef and the She Male’ The apology was published on Saturday the 25th of October, almost three weeks after the headline in question was […]
Representatives of Perth’s LGBTIQ communities have come together to remember and pay respect to Payang Prasetyo. Mayang, an Indonesian woman, who was transgender, was horrifically killed in an apparent domestic violence incident in Queensland earlier this month. Unfortunately a great deal of media reporting on her death focused on her gender history and employment as […]
Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper is under fire after it published a headline describing a murder victim as a ‘she male’. The News Corp publication’s story on the horrific murder of Brisbane woman Mayang Prasetyo was published with the front page headline “Monster Chef and the She Male”, while the story inside the newspaper was titled “Ladyboy […]
