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LGBTIQA+ advocates are once again urging the Australian Human Rights Commission to install a dedicated LGBTIQA+ Human Rights Commissioner. The calls come as attacks on LGBTIQA+ communities and individuals become more frequent across Australia, both online and at community events. Transgender people and drag story time events have been explicitly targeted, with recent story time […]
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3 Jun 2023 /
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A Perth couple have shared their frustration that their child’s school is refusing their request to accept their child’s new name. Andrew and Louise’s child Lynx is in the fifth grade at Quinns Baptist College in Perth northern suburbs. They’re supportive parents who are embracing their child’s non-binary gender and choice of a new name. […]
Tags: Brian Greig, gender diverse, just.equal, mcgowan government, non binary, quinns baptist college, transgender
27 Jun 2022 |
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A group of organisations representing Christian schools is urging the Albanese government to quickly bring in proposed religious discrimination laws citing new research that they claim shows overwhelming public support for the legislation. The Australian Association of Christian Schools (AACS), Christian Schools Australia and Associated Christian Schools jointly commissioned the report and they say it […]
Tags: christian schools, just.equal, religious discrimination, religious freedom
4 Jun 2022 |
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Canada will be ending its ban on blood donation for gay/bi men and trans folks, moving away from a forced abstinence period for most queer potential donors. The nation joins Greece, the UK, Brazil, Iceland and a growing number of countries around the world moving towards individual risk assessment rather than a blanket ban on […]
Tags: blood ban, blood equality, Canada, just.equal, Rodney Croome
29 Apr 2022 |
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The National Catholic Education Commission has called on both major parties to clarify how they will bring forward federal legislation for Religious Discrimination. Former Labor Minister Jacinta Collins, who heads the group, has written to both leaders asking them to finalise legislation within their first 100 days of a new parliamentary term. The Morrison government […]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, AusPol, Brian Greig, Election 2022, Jacinta Collins, just.equal, Labor, Liberal, National Catholic Education Commission, religious discrimination bill
18 Apr 2022 |
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Rights organisation Just.Equal Australia has written to Labor’s Shadow Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus, asking him to clarify Opposition policy on LGBTQ+ teachers in faith-based schools. Spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said Labor’s stance during the Religious Discrimination Bill debate was at times vague, contradictory and discriminatory. “Labor made it clear it would protect LGBTQ+ students, however, its […]
Tags: discrimination, Election 2022, just.equal, Labor, Mark Dreyfus, religious discrimination, religious freedom
29 Mar 2022 |
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West Australians have shown themselves to be the strongest opponents of the federal government’s Religious Discrimination Bill. A survey by YouGov Galaxy has found a clear majority of voters do not support key sections of the contentious bill. The survey was conducted for lobby group Just Equal Australia. On a state-wide basis WA voters were […]
Tags: Brian Grieg, just.equal, religious discrimination, religious freedom, Western Australia
9 Feb 2022 |
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Liberal MP Jason Falinski says the contract put forward by Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College, that describes homosexuality and bisexuality as destructive to people and society, is appalling – but it would not have been permitted to occur if the government’s proposed Religious Discrimination laws were in place. His claim has been questioned by LGBTIQA+ rights […]
Tags: citipointe christian college, Jaosn Falinski, just.equal, religious discrimination, religious freedom, Rodney Croome, schools
3 Feb 2022 |
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The senate inquiry looking into the third version of the Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination bill have heard directly from gay teachers who have been sacked from religious based schools who shared their concern that the proposed laws will open the gates for a “purge” of LGBTIQA+ staff members. Karen Pack told the inquiry she was […]
Tags: Brian Greig, just.equal, religious discrimination, religious freedom, teachers
23 Jan 2022 |
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Just.Equal Australia and PFLAG Australia have called on supporters of LGBTIQ+ equality to join the campaign against the Religious Discrimination Bill by sending submissions to the two current inquiries into the Bill. The two groups have partnered to establish the Equality not Discrimination campaign website that allows opponents of the Religious Discrimination bill to send […]
Tags: just.equal, PFLAG, religious discrimination, religious freedom, Rodney Croome, Shelley Argent
15 Dec 2021 |
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