Greenwich urges Labor, Coalition to rethink mandatory blood tests
Independent member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, has urged the NSW Opposition and Liberal government to rethink plans to allow police to force people who assault …
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Rainbow Labor break ranks over mandatory HIV blood testing policy
The LGBTQI caucus of the Australian Labor Party has broken ranks with NSW Labor and NSW Opposition leader Jodi McKay over its support for a …
2GB’s Ray Hadley repeatedly makes false HIV biting, saliva risk claims
2GB talk radio host Ray Hadley has repeatedly implied that a person could be infected with a blood-borne virus like HIV if they were spat …
Homophobic, transphobic flyers distributed in Sydney ahead of NSW election
The flyers, which were previously distributed during the marriage equality postal survey, instruct locals not to vote for Labor “if you do not want your children become homosexuality”.
NSW Health Minister indicates support for Victoria’s conversion therapy ban
The NSW government is “on the same page” as the Victorian government, according to NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, who said he would monitor the enactment of the ban over the next year.
Transphobic anti-Safe Schools flyers found in letterboxes ahead of Wentworth by-election
The flyer insists that “it is not anti-LGBTQI propaganda but simply the facts about ‘Safe Schools’ and similar programs”.
NSW Labor leader declares Safe Schools “gone for good”
“Schools have a role to stop bullying. But what I won’t have is some theory that comes from a university sociology course doing it.”
Turnbull takes out top GLORIA gong for lack of action on LGBTI issues
The awards were given out to those who had made the most outrageous comments about LGBTI people in the past year
Labor’s Penny Sharpe officially retakes NSW upper house seat
Despite election loss, the marriage equality advocate is back in the NSW Parliament as Labor votes to reinstall former minister into the upper house
Mardi Gras should expand to western Sydney — Labor NSW election candidate
The underdogs in the LGBTI-centric seat of Sydney aren’t throwing in the towel, talking up plans to take Mardi Gras to the outer suburbs and end anti-discrimination exemptions.