New South Wales Labor MP Penny Sharpe has resigned from her position on the front-bench over the party’s support for mandatory blood testing laws. In a letter to Labor leader Jodi McKay, Sharpe resigned as a the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council and from her positions as the Shadow Minister for […]
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16 May 2021 /
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New South Wales’ upper house have moved to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into hate crimes against the LGBTI+ community in Sydney between 1970 and 2010. The multi-party Inquiry will be carried out by the Social Issues Committee, following calls from the community for such an inquiry into the murders of at least 88 people over […]
Tags: discrimination, hate crime, historical, Labor, Liberal, new south wales, NSW, Penny Sharpe, shayne mallard, Sydney
19 Sep 2018 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was the big winner at the GLORIA Awards this week. The nation’s leader picked up the ‘Golden Gloria’ not for something he said, but for a lot of things he seems to have forgotten to say. The annual awards, which are organised by NSW MP Penny Sharpe, shine a light on […]
Tags: gay, GLORIA, GLORIA Awards, ignorant, Intersex, Karvelas, Kel Richards, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Lyle Shelton, Malcolm Turnbull, Manny Pacquiao, Marco Rubio, offensive, Penny Sharpe, queer, ridiculous, Tony Abbott, transgender
13 May 2016 |
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In anticipation that federal parliament votes against the proposed Marriage Act, NSW has become the fourth state to prepare a state bill for marriage equality. NSW Labour MLC Penny Sharpe announced plans to go ahead with a bill that will ensure same-sex couples can marry in the state. Other states planning state-level marriage equality bills […]
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19 Sep 2012 |
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