THE new AFL season may still be a few months away but that hasn’t prevented the Greater Western Sydney Giants from winning over a whole new set of fans after it became the first AFL club to...

THE Melbourne-based Human Rights Law Centre held a public panel discussion on the global LGBTI rights landscape last week, where the Sex Discrimination Amendment Bill passed earlier this year was held up as a globally significant anti-discrimination...

HEARTBROKEN after the High Court annulled their marriages late last week, couples who took part in Australia’s first-ever legally recognised same-sex weddings in the ACT have nonetheless said there was plenty to be positive about following the...

THIS year has been a big year of opinions, and at the Star Observer we have taken a look at the entire year and collected the top 10 most-read (online) Soap Box Opinions as part of our 2013 Star Observer In...

CHRISTIAN Democratic Party leader and NSW MLC Fred Nile was married for the second time last weekend with his ceremony at North Sydney also featuring a surprise same-sex marriage protest involving a drag queen. Carrying a sign...

CLASSICAL libertarian advocate and openly-gay man Tim Wilson has been appointed as Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner by Attorney-General George Brandis. Wilson has for the past seven years been the policy director at the Institute of Public Affairs....

THE Australian Labor Party sparked confusion on Monday after they voted in favour of a motion investigating a referendum on marriage equality, but have since clarified their position in opposition to such a referendum. The motion came...

THE High Court has unanimously struck down the Australian Capital Territory’s same-sex marriage legislation after declaring it unconstitutional. This means the 27 couples who wed in the ACT when the laws came into effect on December 7...

SENATOR John Madigan’s preliminary steps towards a referendum to ban same-sex marriage in Australia has been struck down, just days after a similar referendum in Croatia. Madigan (pictured), from the Democratic Labor Party, had proposed an inquiry...

THOUSANDS of social media users continue to dominate Facebook and Twitter feeds with posts that show widespread support for Australia’s first ever legal same-sex marriages in the ACT today. The impending threat of the High Court striking...