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Senator Fraser Anning from Katter’s Australia Party has launched a long rant on Twitter attacking the Safe Schools program and transgender youth. The politician, who defected from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to the Katter Party, said in the late 1960’s Australia would have declared the Safe Schools program to be communist propaganda and the people […]
Tags: AusPol, Bob Katter, Fraser Anning, Katter's Australia Party, safe schools, Twitter
20 Sep 2018 /
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Liberal leader Dr Mike Nahan has announced he’ll keep regional residential colleges open by killing off the Safe Schools program that aims to create more inclusive school environments for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. At the Liberal party’s state conference Dr Nahan said he’d keep Moora Residential College, Landsdale College and toehr facilities open […]
Tags: Inclusive Education, inclusive education wa, Liberal, Mike Nahan, safe schools
12 Aug 2018 |
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The Safe Schools anti-bullying resource for schools has been renamed following criticism from conservative groups after its initial launch, election campaigns and throughout last year’s Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey. Inclusive Education WA will provide the same support and resources to any school, school staff member, family or student who is seeking information on how […]
Tags: bullying, inclusive education wa, Mark McGowan, safe schools
1 Aug 2018 |
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has shared his hope that the Ruddock Review into religious freedom in Australia will bring about greater protections for people of faith. The government has received the report, but declared it’ll be weeks before it’s findings are shared with the public. Speaking to Sky News this morning Peter Dutton said […]
Tags: Dutton, Peter Dutton, religious review, safe schools
18 May 2018 |
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Cate McGregor has changed her mind about the Safe Schools program and now says she is supportive of most parts of the program. McGregor, who prior to her retirement was the highest ranked transgender person in the Australian military, had previously spoken against the program which aims to reduce bullying queer students, but she now […]
Tags: Cate McGregor, Roz Ward, safe schools
3 May 2018 |
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The Northern Territory’s Labor government have confirmed they will continue to fund the Safe Schools anti-bullying program after funding was cut off from Canberra last year. The Australian has reported that over 150 public schools have been informed that the program will continue with funding from the Northern Territory Department of Education. The anti-bullying program, […]
Tags: ACL, ACT, anti-bullying, Mark McGowan, Northern Territory, safe and inclusive schools initiative, safe schools, schools
15 Mar 2018 |
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Long-time opponent of LGBTI+ rights Senator Eric Abetz has said that the bill currently before the parliament to make changes to the Marriage Act goes far beyond the question that was put to the Australian people in the postal survey. Speaking in the Upper House today, Senator Abetz argued that marriage is a social unit […]
Tags: Dean Smith, Eric Abetz, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, Senate
27 Nov 2017 |
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Between 1905 until the section was repealed in 1955, The Aborigines Act 1905 (WA), (entirely repealed in 1964), specified that our First Nation Peoples in WA could not marry a non-Aboriginal person without permission from the so-called ‘Chief Protector’ (Between 1905 and 1936, this only applied to Aboriginal women marrying non-Aboriginal people, after 1936 it […]
Tags: Aboriginal, anthony k j smith, indigenous, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, religious freedom, safe schools
3 Nov 2017 |
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The Coalition for Marriage have launched a new video as part of their campaign to stop same sex couples being allowed to wed. The new spot features Marijke Rancie, who has gained attention online as ‘Political Posting Mumma’. Rancie is a prominent campaigner against the Safe Schools program which aims to stop LGBTIQ students being […]
Tags: Coalition for Marriage, LGBTI, Marijke Rancie, Marriage, marriage equality, Political Posting Mumma, postal survey, queer, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, transgender
16 Oct 2017 |
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“Invigorating and borderline arousing” is how Benjamin Law described the last 24 hours of his life when he chatted to OUTinPerth. On the eve of the release of his Quarterly Essay, Moral Panic 101, which examines the controversy around the Safe Schools Coalition and its treatment in the media, The Australian published a story highlighting […]
Tags: 101, anti-bullying, Benjamin Law, bullying, gay, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Moral Panic, news Corp, Quarterly Essay, queer, safe schools, trans*, transgender
6 Oct 2017 |
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