Posts tagged Tammy Franks

A change.org petition asking South Australia to outlaw the ‘gay panic defence’ and add hate crime provisions to the sentencing law has attracted over 5000 …

Forty five years after South Australia became the first state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality, it is the only jurisdiction yet to outlaw the discriminatory …

Advocates have said the laws are pointless and work to undo the efforts being made in Australia to end HIV stigma.

The state government has been ‘strongly resistant’ to the trial, saying the pool of participants would be too small to run one.

Female co-parents who conceive a child through donor sperm at home or in a clinic will now both be recognised on the child’s birth certificate, without the need to have lived together for a minimum of three years. This is the first in a number of South Australian LGBTI law reforms to be addressed in the upcoming year.

A PLEDGE by the South Australian Greens to abolish the gay panic defence has been welcomed by LGBTI rights groups across the country, renewing calls …

Calls have been made for the South Australian government to continue funding community-based, peer-driven HIV-related projects and services following its decision last month to close …

    A same-sex marriage bill has been defeated in South Australia’s State Parliament after a morning of debate. The Same Sex Marriage Bill 2013, …