Posts in category Opinion

In the lead up to Victoria passing birth certificate reform last month, I attended a number of rallies with other members of the trans and …

When 23-year-old Robert Murley was accused of bashing, stabbing and almost decapitating 65-year-old Joe Godfrey in March 1991, he didn’t deny it. Instead, he claimed …

This Friday is the annual GLOBE Community Awards and I will be attending with a table of colleagues. I’ll be representing an organisation I never …

When it comes to the sexual orientation and gender identity of Australians, it seems that our communities just don’t count. With the news that the …

As the weeks wear on since the Morrison Government’s Religious Discrimination Bill was unveiled, Labor’s silence becomes more conspicuous and troubling with every day. The …

To say our LGBTI communities have a long and complicated history with police, and the justice system more broadly, would be an understatement. While we …

On December 21 of last year George Pell was convicted of one of the most heinous of crimes, that of child sexual abuse.  His acts, …

I’ve worked in underground mining for close to fifteen years, so that’s most of my working career since I was 21. After keeping being gay …

Looking back on the history of the Star Observer’s Melbourne publications, it is incredibly fitting that exactly 34 years to the month of its first …

It’s been seven years since the Sydney Star Observer masthead was retired and rolled in with Melbourne’s Southern Star newspaper to create a national title. …