Posts tagged equality tasmania

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 …

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. …

A political rally that was due to be held in Hobart tomorrow has been called off and will be rescheduled due to a bad weather …

The Equality Tasmania group has urged Labor leader Anthony Albanese to rule out supporting the Coalition’s proposed override of state discrimination legislation, after ALP frontbencher …

Tasmanian LGBTI advocate Rodney Croome has slammed a planned federal override of Tasmania’s offensive language laws announced today by Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter. The override, …

Robert Williams, who lodged the initial complaint over the flyers, said he was “surprised that Mr Durston doesn’t seem to understand that Tasmania’s laws protect everyone equally, including people of faith, and that what he did was both wrong and illegal regardless of how often he invokes God.”

“In Tasmania we have shown it is possible to make substantial progress towards LGBTI equality, regardless of the government’s stance.”

Cricket Australia has been forced to clarify to the media that Faulkner is not gay, calling the incident a “joke that has been taken out of context”.