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Jessica Hoyle, the Tasmanian woman who applied to have an exemption from Tasmania’s anti-discrimination laws so she could hold a women’s event that barred transgender women, says she’ll take her case to the High Court. Appearing on The Rita Panahi Show Hoyle said she believed Tasmania’s Equal Opportunity Commissioner who denied her an exemption from the laws, […]
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7 Dec 2022 /
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At the start of the month Britain’s High Court handed down a decision in a case looking into how the nation’s doctors prescribe treatments to teenagers experiencing gender incongruence. The three judge panel said it was “highly unlikely” that a child of 13 or under was “competent to give consent” to receiving puberty blockers, and […]
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13 Dec 2020 |
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Breaking News Australia’s High Court has quashed the conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell. It is expected he will walk free from Barwon prison within hours. In March 2018 Cardinal Pell was sentenced to a six years in prison. A jury found him guilty of five offences including sexual penetration of a child. The crime […]
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7 Apr 2020 |
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The High Court has dismissed an appeal by an LGBTI rights activist who was seeking to sue a former Katter Party candidate over homophobic remarks. Garry Burns has pursued former Katter Party candidates Tess Corbett and Bernard Gaynor through the legal system for five years, the case leading all the way to the High Court. […]
Tags: Bernard Gaynor, Bob Katter, Garry Burns, High Court, Tess Corbett
19 Apr 2018 |
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The High Court will hand down its decision on whether the Turnbull government’s proposed national survey can proceed at 12:15pm WA time on Thursday. Over the last two days the highest court in the land has heard two cases arguing that the procedure the government has used to create and fund its postal survey plan […]
Tags: High Court, Marriage, marriage equality
6 Sep 2017 |
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Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed that emergency funding given to assist the LGBTI community through the marriage survey period will remain regardless of the outcome of the High Court challenge. The McGowan government recently announced that both the WA AIDS Council and Living Proud would both receive a one-off grant of an additional […]
Tags: High Court, Labor, Living Proud, Malcolm Turnbull, Mark McGowan, Marriage, marriage equality, Mental Health, Premier, Survey, WA AIDS Council
5 Sep 2017 |
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Defence Industry minister Christopher Pyne says he’s hopeful that the government’s plan to hold a postal survey on marriage equality will survive two High Court challenges. On Tuesday and Wednesday this week the High Court will hear two challenges against the government’s plan to use the Australian Bureau of Statistics to conduct the national wide […]
Tags: Christopher Pyne, High Court, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, Same Sex Marriage
3 Sep 2017 |
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Greens Senator for Western Australia Rachel Siewert is calling on Western Australians to enrol and update their details with the Australian Electoral Commission before the deadline in two days time. “I cannot urge young West Aussies strongly enough to enrol to vote before the August 24th deadline in the lead up to the postal plebiscite […]
Tags: AEC, Greens, High Court, Janet Rice, Marriage, marriage equality, plebiscite, postal survey, Rachel Siewert
22 Aug 2017 |
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The High Court will considered two cases questioning the legitimacy of the government’s postal survey for marriage equality just days before the survey forms are sent to every Australian. The legal challenges will be heard by the full bench of the court on 5 and 6 of September, Chief Justice Susan Kiefel told a hearing […]
Tags: Anna Brown, AusPol, Felicity Marlowe, gay, gay marriage, High Court, Intersex, Janet Rice, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, PFLAG, plebiscite, postal survey, queer, Same Sex Marriage, Susan Kiefel, trans*, transgender
12 Aug 2017 |
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Marriage equality advocates have slammed the Liberal party’s decision to maintain their policy of holding a plebiscite on marriage equality. Following a party room meeting the Liberal MPs voted to resubmit their failed plebiscite policy to the senate, adding the threat of rolling out a postal plebiscite if the opposition and crossbench don’t pass the […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, AME, Anna Brown, Australian Marriage Equality, gay, High Court, Human Rights Law Centre, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, LGBTIQA, Marriage, plebiscite, postal plebiscite, queer, Tiernan Brady, trans*, transgender
7 Aug 2017 |
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