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OPINION: Rodney Croome is a long-time LGBTIQ equality advocate On the ABC’s Q+A recently, Kate Rowe, a 78er, asked former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, this question about marriage equality… “Whilst I did and I still do admire and respect you for your time as Prime Minister and a member of Parliament, it still puzzles me […]
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30 Jul 2020 /
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This week’s episode of ABC’s panel discussion program Q&A was a special edition, featuring former Prime Minister Julia Gillard as the sole guest. Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, the program fielded questions from the audience that spanned Gillard’s career, with the former PM speaking about her famous misogyny speech, gender, COVID-19, Tony Abbott and more. One […]
Tags: 78er, Julia Gillard, kate rowe, Labor, Mardi Gras, marriage equality
15 Jul 2020 |
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Sydney radio host Alan Jones has announced he’ll hang up the headphones and retire from radio later this month. Jones will continue to present his evening programs on Sky News and write for newspapers. Jones’ breakfast show has been a top rating program since he took over the slot in 2001. The radio host said […]
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12 May 2020 |
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Gone Girls is a drag revenge fantasy that focuses on two of Australia’s most memorable female elected representatives who have recently left the political arena. Julie Bishop and Julia Gillard rose to the top of Australian politics until it all came crashing down. They may have left politics, but that doesn’t mean they’re over it. […]
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5 Feb 2020 |
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Liberal Senator Dean Smith has been awarded a new prize for political leadership. Senator Smith was named the inaugural recipient of the McKinnon Prize Political Leader of the Year. The award is given by the Susan McKinnon Foundation and the University of Melbourne. Among the judging panel was former prime ministers Julia Gillard and John Howard, alongside […]
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1 Mar 2018 |
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The secretary of the National Sikh Council of Australia, Bawa Singh Jagdev, has told a Senate Inquiry Committee that marriage equality will “destroy the human race.” Mr Jagdev, who was awarded the Order of Australia in 2012, also said he believes same-sex couples should call their relationships “homo-unions” during his submission to the Senate Inquiry […]
Tags: Julia Gillard, Labor, marriage equality, national sikh council of australia, sikh, Terri Butler
8 Feb 2017 |
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Andrew Purchas (pictured, third from left), the founder of Sydney’s gay rugby club The Convicts, is among those named in today’s Australia Day honours. Purchas was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the general division. The award recognises his service to rugby union and the social inclusion of LGBTI people. Purchas told the ABC that […]
Tags: advocate, Andrew Purchas, Anna Bligh, Australia Day, HIV, Home and Away, Honours, Jenny Davis, Jimmy Barnes, John Rock, Julia Gillard, Nick Cave, Paul Kelly, Ray Meagher
26 Jan 2017 |
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Appearing at the University of Victoria to honour retired Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she now supports marriage equality and urges Parliament to act. Ms Gillard tweeted the transcript to her speech, where she addresses the work of Justice Kirby, who came out in […]
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26 Aug 2015 |
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Channel Nine are set to air a major interview with Julia Gillard tonight and the former Prime Minister has changed her stance on marriage equality. In the interview the former Prime Minister rreportedly said; “I’ve got what may be in the modern age a kind of old-fashioned, feminist view about, can we take the traditional […]
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23 Sep 2014 |
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The Stalking of Julia Gillard by Kerry-Anne Walsh Allen & Unwin Kerry-Anne Walsh was press secretary for Bob Hawke before reporting from Canberra’s press gallery for the next 25 years for print, radio and television. She knows ‘what a bastard of a business politics and journalism can be’ and became disenchanted with political spin and […]
Tags: Bibliophile, Julia Gillard, Kerry-Anne Walsh, Lezly Herbert
8 Sep 2014 |
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