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Facebook and Instagram will launch a whole range of new features to their platforms today to allow Australians to celebrate their Pride during the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Facebook and Instagram’s Your Voice Matters campaign aims to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories and communities, empowering queer expression, and fostering safety across the platforms. Instagram will also […]
Tags: ACON, Bisexual, Facebook, gay, Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, instagram, Intersex, Lesbian, Mardi Gras, Nicholas Parkhill, Pride, Sydney, trans*, transgender
14 Feb 2020 /
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Defamation is a wild beast. It’s hard to understand and even more difficult to explain how it works. It is the Khloe Kardashian of the legal world. Here is the black and white: for something to be defamatory a person must be able to prove that someone has published a matter, as defined in the […]
Tags: defamation, Facebook, instagram, jo wynaden, legally speaking, social media, sonder legal, Twitter
12 Dec 2017 |
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We’ve all had this farce of a Marriage Equality Survey foisted upon us and most of us are pretty disappointed that our civil rights are being put to a voluntary, non-binding, $122M survey. So why not have some fun with it, and make the most of a terrible situation? Introducing: #postboxselfie When was the last […]
Tags: Facebook, instagram, Marriage, marriage equality, post box, postal survey, postboxselfie, sayYES, selfie, tim callow, Twitter, yes
19 Sep 2017 |
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Diane Teasdale, an independent candidate running for federal parliament in the Victorian seat of Murray, has suddenly got a lot of attention after she outlined her opposition to marriage equality on her official Facebook page. In her Facebook post Teasdale make tenuous links between homosexuality and pedophilia, and noted her observations about the push for […]
Tags: Australia First, Diane Teasdale, Facebook, Homosexuality, Marriage, marriage equality, Murray, pedophillia, Shepparton, suicide
20 Jun 2016 |
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Labor leader Bill Shorten has said he’s concerned that the government’s plan for a plebiscite on marriage equality will lead to increased levels of homophobia in Australia. The Prime Minister and the leader of the Opposition faced off against each other in the third debate of the election campaign, this time it was an online […]
Tags: Bill SHorten, Debate, Facebook, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, marriage equality, news.com, Orlando, Pulse
18 Jun 2016 |
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OPINION The author Gabriel García Márquez said; “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” But in Australia in 2016 are we struggling to recognise the line between the first two? Are we just left with public and secret? Many people rightly felt that academic Roz Ward, the founder of the Safe Schools Coalition, […]
Tags: anti-bullying, Bisexual, Daniel Zachariou, Facebook, free speech, freee speech, gay, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, private, Public, queer, Roz Ward, safe schools coalition, secret, Supanova, trans*, transgender
7 Jun 2016 |
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Roz Ward, the co-founder of the Safe Schools Coalition program which aims to stop LGBTIQ+ students from being bullied in the education system has resigned from educational advisory role with the Victorian government. Ward’s resignation follows a news report stating that she had described the Australian flag as “racist” in a private Facebook post. Gender […]
Tags: Australian Flag, bullying, Facebook, LaTrobe University, Martin foley, Marxism, resignation, rowena allen, Roz Ward, safe schools coalition
29 May 2016 |
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Facebook has deleted a series of posts and videos on the social media page for the United Patriots Front after they singled out gay and transgender people for abuse and threats. Concern was raised yesterday by community members that far-right group, The United Patriots Front – Perth, had taken photographs from a local photographer and […]
Tags: bullying, Facebook, gay, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, photographs, Photos, safe schools coalition, Save Safe Schools WA, transgender, United Patriots Front, Video
27 Apr 2016 |
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Andrew Hastie , the member for Canning has called on Facebook to explain why it deleted a post from a traditional marriage advocate. The Australian has reported that Hastie was very concerned to hear that the social media giant had deleted an opinion piece published by Anglican church minister John Dickinson. Mr Dickson was informed […]
Tags: Andrew Hastie, censorship, classical marriage, Facebook, John Dickson, Marriage, marriage equality, Same Sex Marriage, social media, Tim Wilson, traditional marriage
19 Apr 2016 |
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Facebook and Australian Marriage Equality have partnered together to launch a new initiative that allows Facebook users to visibly demonstrate their support for marriage equality ahead of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. OUTinPerth editor Graeme Watson models the overlay in the image (left). Australian Marriage Equality’s national campaign director, Erin McCallum, said the […]
Tags: Australian Marriage Equality, Facebook, Marriage, Marriage Alliance, marriage equality
3 Mar 2016 |
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