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Students identifying as cats, political leaders claiming they’re not woke, and attempts to link the gay community to a horrific murder. What do they have in common, they’re all stories that appeared in News Corp publications that have been questioned about how true they actually are, or as in the last case, proven to be […]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Brian Greig, cat students, Christopher Dore, Courier Mail, daily telegraph, Dante Wyndham Arthurs, news Corp, Outsiders, SKY News, Sophia Rodriguez-Urratia Shu, The Australian, woke
26 Mar 2022 /
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The Australian Press Council has delivered its adjudication on a complaint from well-known transgender health expert Dr Michelle Telfer finding that the national newspaper had breached reporting standards on several occasions. The Press Council also ruled that many of the reports published by The Australian fell within the guidelines of acceptable reporting. The council considered a complaint […]
Tags: Gender, Michelle Telfer, newscorp, The Australian, transgender
3 Sep 2021 |
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A report looking into mainstream media’s coverage on people who are transgender has highlighted that The Australian newspaper and other News Corp owned publications feature stories about transgender people much more often than their rivals. The study also highlights that reports in The Australian newspaper between April and October 2019 were framed transgender people and issues negatively 90 […]
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4 Jul 2021 |
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The Australian newspaper has published an opinion piece declaring that ‘woke’ thinking is a danger to Australia’s way of life, listing “gay, trans, gender, and race” as “the great social trip wires of our time”. The use of the word ‘woke’ in recent years has been used to describe being alert to injustice in society, especially […]
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21 May 2021 |
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Warning: This article contains mentions of violent hate crimes, suicide. Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has called on the NSW Parliament to adopt all recommendations of the Standing Committee on Social Issues report, as reported in The Australian today, on gay and transgender hate crimes. The newspaper has revealed that the yet unpublished report recommends […]
Tags: Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, hate crimes, new south wales, Sydney, The Australian
26 Mar 2021 |
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The current parliamentary inquiry into media diversity in Australia has received a submission from the director of Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne’s gender service, speaking out against The Australian‘s coverage of transgender and gender diverse issues. Associate Professor Michelle Telfer has outlined her thoughts on The Australian‘s dedicated ‘Gender’ section, which launched in 2019, describing the articles as […]
Tags: gender clinic, Michelle Telfer, news Corp, royal children's hospital melbourne, The Australian
26 Feb 2021 |
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Anti-transgender organisation Binary has been challenged to release the full details of their survey which they claim shows Australian parents are overwhelmingly opposed to their children learning about the experiences of people who are transgender. The Australian newspaper published the results of the poll on the eve of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and […]
Tags: Bernard Lane, binary, biphobia, Homophobia, IDAHoBiT, The Australian, Transphobia
17 May 2020 |
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The Australian newspaper says federal Health Minister Greg Hunt needs to clearly explain his position on the treatment of transgender youth. Last month Hunt spoke to rival news organisation Nine, telling the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, that he did not support calls for a national inquiry into the treatment of transgender youth. The Minister’s comments followed an […]
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2 May 2020 |
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Health Minister Greg Hunt has ruled out holding a national inquiry into transgender health treatment. The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Hunt dismissed the campaign for a national inquiry, saying that he agreed with the recently released response from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians who said that an inquiry could be harmful to vulnerable […]
Tags: greg hunt, Health, Michelle Telfer, murdoch, Royal College of Australasian Physicians, The Australian, trans*, transgender
19 Apr 2020 |
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The CEO of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) has responded to media reports suggesting the organisation was pushing for children to be allowed sex change surgery without parental consent or mandatory counselling saying the reporting has misrepresented the organisation’s statements. Earlier this week The Australian newspaper reported that the organisation had called for children under 16 to […]
Tags: Bernard Lane, Dianna Kenny, The Australian, transgender
4 Oct 2019 |
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