The Greens have called on the Liberal Party to use tonight’s Court Hotel campaign event to announce support for same sex marriage and Safe Schools. Greens spokesperson for sexuality and gender identity Lynn MacLaren MLC has called on Premier Colin Barnett and the Liberal Party to use their campaign event at The Court Hotel to […]
Education Minister Peter Collier has ruled out any future support for the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program from the Barnett government. Yesterday the opposition announced that a future McGowan Labor government would supply funding on a state level to allow the anti-bullying program that protects LGBTIQ+ students to continue. Last month the federal government removed […]
WA’s Education Minister Peter Collier has told Perth Now that LGBTIQ students would be better served by generic anti-bullying programs instead of the Safe Schools Coalition. Mr Collier said WA State Schools already had comprehensive anti-bullying programs. The Education Minister described the content of the Safe Schools Coalition program that aims to reduce bulling of […]
WA’s Education Minister Peter Collier has said there’s no problem with religious schools who discriminate against children with gay relatives getting tax payers dollars to operate. Mr Collier told 9 News Perth that it was “a little bit concerning” that the girl at the centre of this week’s controversy had to find a new school […]
Calls for education minister to act A new petition has been launched calling for schools that discriminate against children with same sex parents to be ineligible for government funding. Yesterday it was revealed that a Mandurah school had asked a seven year old girl to not speak about her gay father. The girls father has […]
If someone started bullying you for being queer, where would you go and what would you do? For a question that applies to 350,000 Australian LGBTIQ youth, the answers are hazy at best. With a state government that has been reluctant to acknowledge that homophobic bullying in our schools exists, it’s no wonder that […]
