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ACON, who runs Pride in Sport, Australia’s first and only sexuality and gender diverse sporting inclusion program, spoke out this week following widespread commentary around Cricket Australia’s announcement of a new inclusive policy that welcomed transgender people. The organisation said they were aware of increasing media commentary that was strongly critical of Cricket Australia’s new […]
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11 Aug 2019 /
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The Greens are taking action to move the Morrison government toward releasing the Ruddock Review into the state of religious freedom in Australia. The Turnbull-appointed panel led by former Liberal MP Philip Ruddock was due to release the information to the public in March, then in May. At this stage Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office […]
Tags: Greens, Janet Rice, Nick McKim, Philip Ruddock, Prime Minister, religious freedom, ruddock, Ruddock review, Scott Morrison, the australian greens
19 Sep 2018 |
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reasserted his support for stronger legal protections for religious freedom while speaking to ABC’s 730 program. Host Leigh Sales asked the Prime Minister about his stance on the issue after he vowed to defend religious freedom in an interview with Sydney Morning Herald last week. Sales questioned the Prime Minister on what […]
Tags: discrimination, Philip Ruddock, Prime Minister, religious freedom, Scott Morrison
11 Sep 2018 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is hanging on to his job despite mass resignations from his team and has set a Friday high noon deadline for his internal critics to call for a second spill motion. Speaking to reporters in Canberra Turnbull said he awaiting for a letter form his colleagues requesting a second party room […]
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23 Aug 2018 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he will support some amendments to Senator Dean Smith’s cross-party marriage bill when it reaches the House of Representatives next week. The bill, which was debated over three days in the Senate this week, passed the upper house unamended – despite numerous attempts from Liberal Senators James Paterson, David Fawcett […]
Tags: Adam Bandt, Andrew Wilkie, Dean Smith, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, Marriage Bill, marriage equality, Prime Minister, rebekha sharkie, Warren Entsch
30 Nov 2017 |
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A group of conservative MPs are rushing to create their own marriage bill in preparation for the ‘Yes’ case being successful in the national postal survey. The group, which includes WA Liberal Ian Goodenough and Andrew Hastie, are working on their own private members bill which will have greater protections for religious freedom than those […]
Tags: Andrew Hastie, Australian Conservatives, Bisexual, conservative, Cory Bernardi, Eric Abetz, freedom of speech, gay, gay marriage, Ian Goodenough, Intersex, John Howard, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Liberal, Marriage, marriage equality, parental rights, Perth Now, Prime Minister, queer, religious freedom, religious protections, Same Sex Marriage, The Australian, trans*, transgender, yes
2 Oct 2017 |
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s youngest daughter has thrown her support behind a YES vote in the postal survey on marriage, releasing a video with the Yes Campaign. Frances Abbott, who drew attention last week for posting her support for the YES campaign on her Instagram account, has shared her desire to attend her aunt […]
Tags: Christine Forster, frances abbott, Liberal, Marriage, marriage equality, plebiscite, postal survey, Prime Minister, Same Sex Marriage, Tony Abbott
26 Sep 2017 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called the Liberal Party back from parliamentary break a day earlier than expected to debate marriage equality before all MPs return to Canberra. Headlines have been dominated by the issue in the last week, as government MPs declare they will cross the floor if given the opportunity to vote in […]
Tags: Andrew Broad, Dean Smith, Liberal, LNP, Malcolm Turnbull, marriage equality, National, Prime Minister, Trent Zimmerman, Warren Entsch
3 Aug 2017 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been ambushed with questions on marriage equality this morning, while attempting to speak about the government’s PaTH employment program. Appearing with Employment Minister Michaelia Cash, Turnbull’s media call was dominated by questions on the news that a number of Coalition MPs are planning to cross the floor to deliver marriage […]
Tags: free vote, Malcolm Turnbull, marriage equality, Michaelia Cash, PaTH, plebiscite, Prime Minister
1 Aug 2017 |
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Liberal MP Jason Wood has told The Guardian that he’d vote in favour of marriage equality if his colleagues manage to get a private member’s bill up. Wood said that while the proposed plebiscite had been the way of dealing with the issue, if a debate commenced on the floor of parliament, he believed Liberal […]
Tags: asexual, AusPol, Bisexual, Christopher Pyne, Dean Smith, gay, government, Intersex, jason wood, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, LGBTIQA, Liberal, Lyle Shelton, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, marriage equality, Prime Minister, queer, Same Sex Marriage, trans*, transgender, Trent Zimmerman, Trevor Evans, Turnbull government, Warren Enstch
31 Jul 2017 |
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