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The inquiry was announced in September to investigate LGBTI hate crimes which took place between 1970 and 2010.

“This inquiry is overdue. For the heartbroken friends and family members of these individuals, who were targeted and murdered, it has been a decades long journey for justice and redress.”

The gay and lesbian rights lobbies in Victoria and New South Wales are coming together to campaign for key issues affecting LGBTI Australians ahead of the Federal election.

The NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby has named a new committee and will continue its advocacy work and push on with its priority of fighting discrimination in 2016.

A new bill allowing same-sex couples to jointly adopt in Victoria was passed in Victorian Parliament’s lower house, despite no Liberal MPs voting in favour of it.

Meanwhile, one of Australia’s leading LGBTI sexual health organisations issued a strong statement opposing a plebiscite.

 LAST year, the LGBTI community celebrated a significant achievement. The passage of the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Act 2013 …

WITH the recent dropping of charges against gay activist Bryn Hutchinson, the relationship between the LGBTI community and NSW Police is once again under scrutiny. …

On Sunday, the member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich MP, announced that he would be taking a bill to the NSW Parliament abolishing one of the …

US President Barack Obama has nominated openly gay public official John Berry as the next American ambassador to Australia. Berry is one of eight openly …