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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Between 1905 until the section was repealed in 1955, The Aborigines Act 1905 (WA), (entirely repealed in 1964), specified that our First Nation Peoples in WA could not marry a non-Aboriginal person without permission from the so-called ‘Chief Protector’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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Premier Mark McGowan entered the auditorium at the WA Labor conference in late August to thunderous applause from the party faithful. At the state election in February McGowan lead the party to a resounding victory, delivering a landslide result that obliterated the longstanding Barnett Liberal government, and this was the party’s moment to celebrate that […]
Tags: Coalition for Marriage, crystal meth, homelessness, It's Time, Labor, Living Proud, Mark McGowan, marriage equality, meth, methamphetamine, Premier, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, Western Australia
26 Sep 2017 |
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Lyle Shelton, from the Australian Christian Lobby, and Karina Okotel, Vice President of the Liberal Party, spoke at the National Press Club today to outline their opposition to marriage equality. Last week The YES campaign put forward their case for change, and a week later it was the turn of the NO campaign to deliver […]
Tags: ACL, Adoption, AIDS, Australian Christian Lobby, Buzzfeed, freedom of speech, HIV, IVF, Karina Okotel, kissing, Lane Sainty, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Liberal, Lyle Shelton, Marriage, marriage equaity, National Press Club, Nuns, Paul Karp, queer, radical sex education, rainbow family, religious freedom, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, St Vincents, traditional marriage
13 Sep 2017 |
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The Liberal Party Vice President Karina Okotel was in the full swing of arguing against marriage equality this morning when she came across a question that she just couldn’t answer. Appearing on ABC Radio National’s Breakfast program, Okotel was debating the issue of marriage equality with fellow Liberal Christine Forster. Forster, who is a City […]
Tags: ABC, Christine Forster, divorce, fail, Karina Okotel, Liberal, Liberal Vice President, Marriage, marriage equaity, No Campaign, Patreicia Karvelas, Radio National, safe schools, Tony Abbott
12 Sep 2017 |
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On the day his quarterly essay is released, author Benjamin Law has been criticised over a tweet he made late last month. Law, best known for his autobiographical book The Family Law, which inspired the popular SBS sitcom, is the author of the latest Quarterly Essay which focuses on the Safe Schools program. Titled Moral Panic 101: Equality, […]
Tags: Andrew Hastie, Benjamin Law, bullying, canning, Coalition for Marriage, gay, George Christensen, Lesbian, marriage equality, Quarterly Essay, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, trans*, transgender
11 Sep 2017 |
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WA Labor have endorsed a policy to protect LGBTI students at the party’s state conference. A new clause outlining the party’s commitment to anti-bullying programs was added to WA Labor’s education policy. Andy Skinner, the President of Rainbow Labor, told the conference that young LGBTI people needed support programs that stopped bullying on the basis […]
Tags: Andy Skinner, bullying, conference, education, funding, gay, Intersex, Labor, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, policy, queer, Rainbow Labor, safe schools, trans*, transgender
26 Aug 2017 |
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