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Western Australia has made a significant commitment to push towards a community free of HIV by signing up to Fast-Track Cities global partnership initiative and its Paris Declaration, to track progress towards achieving UNAIDS 95-95-95, 2025 targets to end AIDS by 2030. The WA government signed on to the goal as Perth marked 40 years of […]
Tags: AIDS, Conrad Liveris, HIV, Lisa Dobrin, paris declaration, Roger Cook, WAAC
1 Dec 2021 /
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On World AIDS Day on Wednesday 1 December, and the 40th year anniversary of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, WA is the first state in Australia to sign up to the Fast-Track Cities initiative, aimed at getting to zero new HIV infections and zero AIDS-related deaths. The declaration was signed by Minister for Health, the Hon Roger […]
Tags: Conrad Liveris, janet carter, Lisa Dobrin, Roger Cook, WAAC, World AIDS Day
1 Dec 2021 |
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Australian LGBTQIA+ advocates have welcomed the news that the UK will be bringing forward a ban on LGBTQIA+ conversion practices, as promised by former Prime Minister Theresa May. UK PM Boris Johnson said his government would be creating legislation to end the “abhorrent practices which can cause mental and physical harm.” Johnson’s government will host […]
Tags: Boris Johnson, conversion therapy, equality tasmania, Mark McGowan, Rodney Croome, Roger Cook
14 May 2021 |
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Anti-transgender organisation Binary have launched a petition to block a conversion therapy ban in WA, claiming the McGowan Government are planning to introduce a bill similar to Victoria’s ‘gold-standard’ ban. Binary have a history of rallying against the rights, health and wellbeing outcomes of trans and gender diverse folks, as well as the wider LGBTQIA+ […]
Tags: binary, conversion therapy, gender diverse, Kirralie Smith, Mark McGowan, Roger Cook, trans*, WA Labor
8 Apr 2021 |
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Mainstream media outlets are reporting today that WA Labor have committed to banning conversion practices, but has the party really given that strong a commitment? As OUTinPerth first reported earlier this week, after months of being asked, WA Labor finally gave a response on this issue of conversion legislation. Responding to an election policy survey […]
Tags: Alison Xamon, conversion therapy, Mark McGowan, mcgowan, Roger Cook, True Identity
12 Mar 2021 |
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ACL volunteer claims they’ve been told Victoria’s conversion therapy ban will see Western Australian pastors extradited to Victoria to face a decade in prison. On the 26th February former head of the Australian Christian Lobby Lyle Shelton was a guest on the 20Twenty program on Vision Radio Australia. The daily current affairs program commentary on […]
Tags: conversion therapy, James Parker, John Quigley, Mark McGowan, Peter Abetz, Roger Cook
4 Mar 2021 |
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Tasmania’s current inquiry on LGBTQIA+ conversion practices in the state has drawn attention to the ongoing provision of the harmful “therapies” in religious institutions. In a public submission to the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, a church leader from Launceston has proudly admitted to engaging in attempts to alter the sexuality or gender identity (SOGI) of […]
Tags: Alison Xamon, conversion therapy, equality tasmania, Rodney Croome, Roger Cook, Tasmania, WA Election
23 Feb 2021 |
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Survivors of LGBTQIA+ conversion practices have welcomed calls by the WA Greens for Western Australia to enact legislation against it. Upper House Greens MP, Alison Xamon, signaled recently that the issue needs to be addressed locally in the wake of other states moving ahead with bans and criminal penalties. Nathan Despott, from survivor group Brave […]
Tags: Alison Xamon, chris csabs, conversion therapy, Labor, mcgowan government, Roger Cook
1 Sep 2020 |
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The McGowan Government has announced they will inject nearly $10 million towards developing and implementing a region-by-region approach to Aboriginal suicide prevention in Western Australia. The regional plans will prioritise Aboriginal-led and locally endorsed initiatives that accommodate a culturally informed social and emotional wellbeing approach to suicide prevention. This includes the principles: nothing for Aboriginal […]
Tags: Aboriginal, ben wyatt, first nations, indigenous, Mental Health, Roger Cook, Suicide Prevention
24 Jul 2020 |
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Western Australian Health Minister Roger Cook has confirmed to OUTinPerth that he has asked the WA Health Department to review the waiting times for gay and bisexual men to donate blood. “The McGowan Government pursues excellence in care across all treatment disciplines, and for all members of the community. I have asked the Department of […]
Tags: Bisexual, blood, blood donation, gay, Health, just.equal, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, queer, Red Cross, Roger Cook, TGA, transgender
17 May 2020 |
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