Labor’s Shadow Home Affairs Minister Kristina Keneally has admitted that Labor may support faith-based schools maintaining their ability to sack LGBTIQA+ teachers. Senator Keneally is currently in the senate, but will be hoping to make the switch to the House of Representatives at the upcoming federal election. Keneally, who is a former NSW Premier, will […]
Tags: Kristina Keneally, Labor, religious discrimination, religious freedom
13 Feb 2022 /
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Labor’s Senator Kristina Keneally says religious based schools should be able to make choices about all their staff members, arguing that all employees of a religious school play a part in creating the community of those institutions. Senator Keneally outlined her view while speaking in an online seminar with conservative group Family Voice Australia. “It’s […]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Election 2022, Kristina Keneally, marriage equaity, religious discrimination
6 Dec 2021 |
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Defence Minister Peter Dutton has been criticised over his crackdown on events that celebrate diversity. Following events that marked International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), Minister Dutton ordered defence force chiefs to ensure their are no future events that suggest people wear particular clothing to show support for marginalised groups. Union leader […]
Tags: Kristina Keneally, Peter Dutton, Rodney Croome
22 May 2021 |
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Labor’s Senator Kristina Keneally says her party is ready to work with the government to bring in the proposed new religious freedom laws. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flagged the introduction of new laws as one of the government’s top priorities. At the opening of parliament the government listed changes to the marriage and anti-discrimination […]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Kristina Keneally, Labor, LGBTIQ, religious freedom
3 Jul 2019 |
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Former Labor leader, turned political commentator, Mark Latham has been dumped by Sky News following widespread condemnation of his comments suggesting that a Sydney school boy looked gay. The network’s political editor David Speers announced Latham’s sacking on his program PM Agenda. “Sky News has ended the contract of contributor Mark Latham,” Speers said. “This follows […]
Tags: Angelos Frangopoulos, David Speers, dumped, Kristina Keneally, Mark Latham, sacked, SKY News, Wendy Harmer
29 Mar 2017 |
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Sky News presenter Mark Latham has been labeled a bully by current Labor leader Bill Shorten. Latham, who was leader of the Labor party from 2003 to 2005, is under fire after he questioned the sexuality of a schoolboy on live TV. Alongside Ross Cameron and Rowan Dean, the retired MP hosts Outsiders, a new right […]
Tags: Bill SHorten, gay, Intersex, Kristina Keneally, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Mark Latham, queer, Rob Stokes, Ross Cammeron, Rowan Dean, SKY News, Sydney Boys School, Tanya Plibersek, trans*, transgender, Wendy Harmer
29 Mar 2017 |
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SKY News Kristina Keneally and Peter van Onselen have expressed their disbelief at homophobic comments made at a fundraising dinner for the Q Society. Their colleague, SKY News’s political commentator Ross Cameron was one of the speakers at the event and he reportedly made a number of disparaging remarks about LGBTI people alongside cartoonist Larry […]
Tags: gay, Intersex, Janine Perrett, Kristina Keneally, Larry Pickering, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Peter van Onselen, queer, Ross Cameron, SKY News, Trangender, trans*
10 Feb 2017 |
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Many questions about the plebiscite Six months ago The Australian Christian Lobby boasted that the government’s tactic of announcing a plebiscite had kicked the issue into the long grass and blunted the growing momentum for marriage equality in Australia. The policy created by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott was clearly meant to remove the issue […]
Tags: Andrew Bolt, Australian Christian Lobby, Bill SHorten, Kristina Keneally, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, marriage equality, Peta Credlin, plebiscite, SKY News, Tony Abbott
1 Jul 2016 |
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