Ahead of a community forum on the future of rainbow families in Australia as part of Midsumma Festival, we spoke to a couple of the panelists about their thoughts on the challenges they face.
Trent Zimmerman has become the first ever openly gay MP to be elected into the House of Representatives in Federal Parliament.
Ahead of his maiden speech in the Senate yesterday, Elias Jahshan had a chat with newly-sworn in and openly gay South Australian Greens Senator Robert Simms about some of the LGBTI issues he’d like to address at a federal level.
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has changed her mind on marriage equality, two years after she left Australia’s highest office.
The backlash on the Abbott Government for the failure to adopt a conscience vote on marriage equality continues.
A wrap-up of today’s same-sex marriage debate between senators Penny Wong and Cory Bernardi at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.
OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten has pledged to legislate same-sex marriage in his first 100 days if he is elected as prime minister at the next Federal …
A motion calling for all Labor MPs to vote for marriage equality seems destined to fail at the ALP’s national conference, which starts tomorrow. But the head of the party’s internal LGBTI group has said the only way to get the numbers in Parliament is for the Coalition to allow a free vote.
THE hypocrisy of some Labor MPs really is staggering. After years of dragging their feet on support for equality, allowing the right faction to stack Senate …
Penny Sharpe, the NSW upper house’s first openly-lesbian MP, is now Labor’s candidate for the electorate of LGBTI-centric Newtown. Here, she explains why the state-wide LGBTI community would benefit from having a Labor government — and an MP such as her.
