Olympian Ian Thorpe has urged people to vote ‘yes’ in the marriage equality survey and get their completed forms in the mail by Friday to ensure they make it back to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in time to be counted. Thorpe said he was optimistic that the marriage survey would return a ‘yes’ result […]
The Equality Campaign has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today that almost three quarters (74.5%) of Australians have returned their marriage surveys. The ABS has released the latest return estimates from the 16 million survey forms sent out last month. The ABS said the estimate is based on a count […]
Olympian Ian Thorpe today posted his YES Ballot in the postal survey and called on Australians to enjoy the AFL and NRL grand finals, and the east coast’s long weekend. “This a really important weekend, not only is it a long weekend but also the grand finals of the footy. So I want everyone in […]
Matthew Mitcham is heading back to Perth with his new cabaret show Under the Covers. The Olympic gold medalist dived into his cabaret career at Fringe World a few years ago with Twists and Turns, a personal show that was based on his autobiography of the same name. The show was incredibly popular with Perth audiences and returned […]
A leading HIV researcher, well known celebrities and British Olympians are among the many people acknowledged in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Professor Amanda Fisher, the director of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at Imperial College in London will become a dame. Fisher’s discoveries helped pinpoint HIV as the virus that leads to AIDS. The […]
