Posts tagged ACT

The ACT could soon decriminalise small amounts of illicit substances such as heroin, MDMA and methamphetamine under a radical new bill set to be introduced …

A Greens candidate in the ACT Parliament elections has called out his rival and the person he is seeking to replace, over the Liberal MLA’s …

With Queensland and the ACT making recent moves to outlaw conversion therapy, NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard has been silent on the matter. The …

Sixteen Uniting Church ministers have in a joint letter extended their support to the ACT government’s new law that seeks to ban sexuality and gender …

Two years after it undertook to enact a law to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices, the ACT government last week introduced the legislation …

Queensland on Thursday became the first state in Australia to ban conversion practices that seek to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender …

Despite their pivotal roles in Australia’s marriage equality campaign, figures such as RODNEY CROOME AM, SHELLEY ARGENT OAM, IVAN HINTON-TEOH OAM and others have been …

Australia’s first openly gay leader of a state or territory government has become the first to enter into a same-sex marriage, in another political first …

The team behind Canberra’s annual equality street festival, Yes!Fest, has announced the line-up for its 2019 event in mid November. This year’s Yes!Fest will feature …

Gay conversion therapy will be banned in the Australian Capital Territory by the end of 2020 after the ACT government announced new plans to improve …