An independent review into Tasmania’s Expungement of Historical Offences, including those of homosexuality and cross-dressing, has made strong recommendations that those convicted should be recompensed …
A number of Hobart residents have expressed their outrage after receiving in their letter box a ‘newspaper’ promoting conversion practices for LGBTQI people. In it was featured …
Candidates in the elections to the Upper House of the Tasmanian Legislative Council have signed a pledge that they will not indulge in campaigns that …
By Kevin Reader On April 13, 2017, Premier Will Hodgman became the first Liberal leader to offer an apology for anti-gay criminal laws. Twenty years …
It was once dubbed “Bigot’s Island” by the international media for its political and social hostility towards homosexuality, but Tasmania has come a long way …
The Tasmanian state government is facing renewed pressure to oppose the federal government’s controversial draft Religious Discrimination Bill after the state’s Legislative Council voted to …
Approximately 250 people attended a rally in Hobart over the weekend to oppose a federal government plan to override and water down Tasmania’s anti-discrimination laws. …
The Equality Tasmania group has released two new fact sheets highlighting the adverse effects of the draft Religious Discrimination Bill on Tasmanians. The aim of …
The Tasmanian Greens Party has passed a motion condemning the federal government’s controversial Religious Discrimination Bill in the hopes of protecting the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act. …
On Sunday, Victorian Greens Senator Janet Rice announced via Facebook that her wife, Dr Penny Whetton, has passed away suddenly but peacefully at their house …
