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Tassie pollie poll positive
Tasmanian gay rights activists have pinned down key political parties on GLBTI issues ahead of the state election on March 20. Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group spokesman Rodney Croome said ... Read more
Fri March 12th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Party slammed over gay marriage stance
Gay activists have dismissed claims by the public officer of the new Tasmanian pro-environment Ethics and Sustainability Party, Kathleen Petrovsky, that same-sex marriage is 'radical' and 'trendy', and have requested ... Read more
Mon January 18th, 2010 - 6 Comments
News of couple’s mistreatment spreads
News of the homophobic harassment of a gay couple living in Hobart has quickly spread, having been reported as far away as the couple’s native Chile. The pair, Juan and Pedro, ... Read more
Tue January 12th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Tasmania tempts marriage laws
The same-sex marriage debate took to the states last week, with Tasmanian Greens and gay rights activists appealing for state governments to take up the issue. State Greens Leader Nick McKim ... Read more
Tue September 1st, 2009 - 4 Comments
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Battlelines drawn for ALP conference
Supporters of same-sex marriage, civil unions and sexuality anti-discrimination laws will be competing with the nuclear power debate for focus on the last day of the ALP National Conference in ... Read more
Tue July 28th, 2009 - 7 Comments
Rights charter faces long wait
The call for a charter of rights dominated the final public hearings of the National Human Rights Consultation, but even the less-publicised proposals presented a step forward for gay and ... Read more
Tue July 21st, 2009 - 3 Comments
Clutch your pearls, we’re thirty
This week Sydney Star Observer celebrates 30 years of publishing. We are the oldest gay and lesbian newspaper not only in Australia, but in the southern hemisphere. For 30 years we ... Read more
Tue July 7th, 2009 - 6 Comments
Tasmania to grant parental rights
The Tasmanian Government has introduced legislation which will give equal legal recognition to lesbian couples having children through IVF. The Relationships (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill proposes reform to the state's Adoption Act ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 4 Comments
Blood campaigner to fight on
Gay blood donation campaigner Michael Cain is putting on a brave face after a disappointing loss at the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal which upheld the ban on gay blood donors last ... Read more
Tue June 2nd, 2009 - 2 Comments
Rudd’s equality buy-off
The Rudd Government has coughed up $450,000 ahead of next week's federal budget as part of measures to ease the impact of the recent same-sex equality reforms. But none of the ... Read more
Tue May 5th, 2009 - 13 Comments
The legacy of Toonen v Australia
A landmark victory by Australian activists 15 years ago this month turned human rights for gay men and lesbians into an international standard and an everlasting part of the UN ... Read more
Tue April 21st, 2009 - 5 Comments
States under register pressure
NSW and other non-compliant states will face renewed federal pressure to introduce same-sex relationship registries at tomorrow's national meeting of attorneys-general. The quarterly meeting's agenda is officially confidential, but federal Attorney-General ... Read more
Tue April 14th, 2009 - 18 Comments
Gays -˜blood terrorists’
The leader of a Tasmanian-based Christian group slammed Australia's gay activists with the most horrifying slur. Australian Federation of the Family founder Jack Sonneman accused activist Rodney Croome and opponents of ... Read more
Wed March 4th, 2009 - 2 Comments
How we’re killing the reef
I sit here as the new year revs up, sweltering and shirtless in my stifling office, a glass of red wine at my elbow, like Malcolm Lowry or Ernest Hemingway ... Read more
Wed January 14th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Rights discussion launched
Gay rights groups have welcomed the launch of a human rights consultation process as an opportunity to push for greater anti-discrimination laws. Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday appointed a committee to discuss ... Read more
Wed December 10th, 2008 - 5 Comments
Council sorry for gay stall arrest
Twenty years after the fact the Hobart City Council has apologised for banning a gay law reform stall and ordering the arrest of 130 people who defied the ban. At a ... Read more
Wed December 10th, 2008 - No Comments
Bread and cake
By Rodney Croome The Government's elimination of financial discrimination against same-sex partners is the most broad-ranging and important gay law reform since Federation. Yet there has there been very little interest in ... Read more
Wed December 3rd, 2008 - No Comments
Gay blood ban case resumes
The Tribunal hearing the gay ban discrimination case against the Australian Red Cross Blood Service has subpoenaed further testimony from the Red Cross's former epidemiology adviser. Professor John Kaldor from the ... Read more
Wed October 1st, 2008 - 3 Comments
Activists condemn Christian Lobby
The Australian Coalition for Equality has lashed back at claims by the Australian Christian Lobby that moves to redefine classifications for children through the Omnibus Bill are based on biological ... Read more
Fri September 12th, 2008 - 23 Comments
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Tony, please think before speaking
You have to feel sorry for Tony Abbott. He has been criticised for speaking without thinking, in his comments on women’s virginity, and on homosexuality “challenging orthodox notions of the right order of things”. The ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Gabbing with Glambert
Appropriately for someone whose goth-glam appearance is the subject of much tabloid fodder, out-and-proud ... Read more
Court rules in favour of trans teen
Transgender rights advocates have welcomed a Family Court decision to allow a trans teenager ... Read more
Police apologise to Blacktown victims
Police will do by better by gay and lesbian victims of crime, NSW’s top ... Read more