University of Sydney debating club pushes for gender diversity and conservatives are freaking out
Senator Eric Abetz, who last year said that “same-sex marriage is not a human right”, labelled the club’s move an instance of “Stalinist dogma”.
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March 22, 2018 University of Sydney debating club pushes for gender diversity and conservatives are freaking out
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October 23, 2017 Mark Latham and No campaigners fall off stage at marriage debate
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October 10, 2017 Senator Matt Canavan says using suicide statistics during the postal survey is “blackmail”
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September 19, 2017 “F**k you, I’m done with being respectful”
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August 14, 2017 Bill Shorten: the most powerful act of resistance is to vote “yes” for equality
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Mark Latham and No campaigners fall off stage at marriage debate
A little schadenfreude to start the week.
Senator Matt Canavan says using suicide statistics during the postal survey is “blackmail”
“Westpac accused people who support traditional marriage of causing 3,000 suicides each year, when in fact there was only 2,800”
“F**k you, I’m done with being respectful”
Who cares if the ‘no’ camp is offended by our demands for equality? We have every right to be furious.
Bill Shorten: the most powerful act of resistance is to vote “yes” for equality
“To young Australians who are gay, let me say that I will be voting yes in this plebiscite because of you”
Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine labels trans bathroom debate ‘silly nonsense’
The Chair of the Prime Minister’s indigenous advisory council made the transphobic comments in an interview on The Bolt Report.
Victorian MPs divided over bill to protect queer workers from religious discrimination
The Liberals have come out strongly against it, while the Greens have moved to include their own amendments.
A major trans debate is on a tightrope in Victoria
The future of a bill allowing trans and gender diverse people to easily change the gender on their birth certificate is uncertain, ahead of an expected debate in the upper house next week.
Victorian upper house passes adoption equality, but votes to allow religious exemptions
Adoption equality for gay and lesbian parents was passed in Victorian Parliament by an overwhelming majority of upper house MPs, but the clause preventing religious discrimination was removed from the bill.