Posts tagged Courier Mail

HIV cannot be transmitted via spit.

Sources have said Turnbull has been wondering how he might convince his partyroom to back a conscience vote after the next election.

While the rest of Australia excelled during the early response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, one state government dragged its LGBTI citizens down during their greatest hour of need. David Alexander speaks to three key figures involved in the fight against homophobia and discrimination during the time of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government.

The Australian Press Council has today announced that the Courier Mail “gratuitously” breached standards over its reporting of the murder of trans woman Mayang Prasetyo last year, where it labelled her a “she male” and “ladyboy”.

As we look ahead to 2015, the Star Observer reflects — in no particular order — on some of the highs and lows of gay and lesbian news in 2014, and what had people around Australia talking.

Trans* activists have accused the Courier-Mail of not accepting any fault and failing to acknowledge the harm it had done with yesterday’s controversial front page. In a Star Observer exclusive, one of the story’s journalists has been found to have made thinly-veiled homophobic remark over Twitter.

The Courier Mail’s front page coverage of the death of Mayang Prasetyo, who was the victim of domestic violence, has been lambasted by social media users and prominent trans* advocates.

The AFAO is among other community and government HIV and AIDS organisations that has criticised mainstream media reporting of a Brisbane school student finding and injuring himself with a needlestick as generating “fear”.