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Added on: 02/04/2022

Amanda Stoker walks back on Morrison pledge to protect LGBTQ+ students in religious discrimination bill

02/04/2022

The assistant attorney general, Amanda Stoker, has muddied the waters about whether LGBTQ+ students will be protected at the same time as the religious discrimination bill potentially…

Global News

Added on: 02/03/2022

Australian PM to ban faith schools from expelling LGBT+ students – and some Christians are furious

02/03/2022

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has vowed to stop students from being expelled for their sexuality or gender identity by religious schools. In an unexpected turnaround, the…

Global News

Added on: 02/02/2022

How HIV elimination is within Australia’s reach.

02/01/2022

Australian HIV diagnoses have hit an all-time low, with the country in sight of eliminating transmissions. It’s a legacy of Australia’s early, effective response, reports Gary Nunn…

Global News

Added on: 01/31/2022

Respected indigenous elder and LGBTIQA+ leader passes away

01/30/2022

Respected Indigenous elder Vanessa Smith has passed away following a long illness. A Noongar Sistergirl of the Kaneang people in the state’s South West, Aunty Vanessa spent decades…

World Voices

Added on: 01/26/2022

Steph Lentz — A teacher’s story of LGBT discrimination and fear in Australia

Jo Moses

Alturi Contributor

LGBT activist Steph Lentz wants you to know that Australia is under threat from a conservative Christian lobby, with organizations from the megachurch Hillsong to the Australian…

Global News

Added on: 01/18/2022

LGBT ACTIVIST DETAINED IN LEBANON, FINALLY ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA

01/17/2022

After fleeing to Turkey from their home country of Jordan in July 2020, LGBTQI activist Alshaima Omama Alzubi has finally arrived in Australia. The 25-year-old Jordanian refugee…

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Added on: 01/17/2022

Man finally admits to killing gay American college student nearly 35 years ago

01/16/2022

A man has pled guilty — against his lawyers’ wishes — to charges stemming from the death of a gay American man in 1988, which was initially…

Global News

Added on: 01/13/2022

Attorney general defends religious schools’ right to sack teachers for views on sexuality

01/12/2022

Michaelia Cash’s department has defended religious schools’ right to sack teachers for their views on sexuality and appeared to confirm safeguards for gay students will be delayed…

Global News

Added on: 01/09/2022

SYDNEY GAY PENGUINS CELEBRATE THREE YEARS TOGETHER

1/9/22

A gay penguin couple has celebrated their third anniversary at Sydney’s SEA LIFE Aquarium. In November 2021 Sphen and Magic celebrated three years together with a frozen…

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Added on: 01/09/2022

‘No words’: gay Australian footballer Josh Cavallo calls out homophobic crowd abuse

1/8/22

Josh Cavallo, who last year became the only openly gay professional top flight men’s footballer in the world, says he has “no words” to describe his disappointment…

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Added on: 12/28/2021

LEBANON ARRESTS 25-YEAR-OLD LESBIAN REFUGEE ON THEIR WAY TO AUSTRALIA

12/27/2021

A Jordanian LGBTQI+ ‘rights defender’ and refugee on their way to Australia has been detained in Lebanon. According to Amnesty International Australia, AOA, a 25-year-old lesbian, non-binary…

Global News

Added on: 12/19/2021

Why religious lobby groups are fighting to keep schools’ power to discriminate

12/18/21

Buried in a recent article in Quadrant magazine is a revealing insight into the mindset of those who want to retain laws that allow religious schools to…

Global News

Added on: 12/06/2021

Victoria bans religious schools from sacking staff for being LGBT

12/05/2021

The Victorian government has passed laws banning religious schools from sacking or refusing to hire staff based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. The state parliament’s…

Global News

Added on: 11/29/2021

China’s LGBTIQ+ movement is under attack. But international support can be a double-edged sword

11/28/2021

People often ask me what it’s like to be queer or trans in China. It was the number one question I encountered when I returned to Melbourne…

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Added on: 11/28/2021

Elderly gay couple forced from Toowoomba home by abuse

11/28/2021

An elderly gay couple will sell up and leave their Toowoomba home following homophobic abuse. Bruce Gardiner told the Toowoomba Chronicle that he and husband Derek suffered…

Global News

Added on: 11/26/2021

Australia: LGBTQ advocates blast religious discrimination bill

11/25/2021

Australia has introduced a new controversial bill aimed at protecting religious people from “cancel culture”. Among other things, it would allow Catholic schools the right to fire…

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Added on: 11/25/2021

Gay Australian Footballer ‘Scared’ to Play at World Cup in Qatar

11/24/2021

Australian footballer Josh Cavallo, who came out as gay last month, has revealed he would be scared to play at the upcoming World Cup in Qatar because of the…

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Added on: 11/24/2021

PM SCOTT MORRISON TO PERSONALLY INTRODUCE RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL IN PARLIAMENT

11/23/2021

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will personally introduce the controversial Religious Discrimination Bill in Parliament on Thursday. The bill was promised by Morrison before the last elections in…

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Added on: 11/21/2021

MAN SENTENCED TO SIX AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON OVER PERTH GAY BASHINGS

11/20/21

A district court in Perth on Friday sentenced a 26-year-old man to six and a half years imprisonment for his role in two separate incidents of bashing…

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Added on: 11/15/2021

Josh Cavallo: the world’s only openly gay top-tier men’s footballer

11/14/2021

When Adelaide United’s Josh Cavallo sat down to film his announcement to the world that he was coming out as gay, he didn’t know what to expect….

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Added on: 11/14/2021

Call for asylum for Afghans facing Taliban LGBT kill lists

11/13/21

Just.Equal Australia has urged the Australian Government to provide refuge for LGBTIQA+ Afghans facing persecution under the Taliban regime. The call follows reports from Rainbow Railroad of…

Global News

Added on: 11/11/2021

How ABCQueer hopes to help young LGBTQIA+ people feel less alone

11/10/2021

Mon Schafter: As a proud queer person and the Content Lead of ABCQueer, this week’s news that the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and WorldPride will…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2021

NSW government announces inquiry into Sydney’s unsolved gay and transgender hate crimes, murders

11/03/2021

The NSW government has announced an inquiry into brutal hates crimes committed against members of Sydney’s gay community over 40 years. In July 1989, 25-year-old newsreader Ross…

Global News

Added on: 11/03/2021

The Better Lives Project to educate on intersex variations

11/02/2021

The Better Lives Project has been launched to educate midwives and parents about the needs of children born with variations of sex characteristics. Intersex is the umbrella…

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Added on: 10/28/2021

Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo comes out as gay

10/27/2021

Australian footballer Josh Cavallo became on Wednesday the first current professional player to come out as openly gay. Cavallo currently plays for Adelaide United in Australia’s soccer…

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Added on: 10/25/2021

SYDNEY COULD HAVE AN LGBT MUSEUM BY 2023

10/25/2021

A new plan for a queer memorial and museum on Oxford Street is in development. Unlike other major cities such as Melbourne, whose Victorian Pride Centre opened…

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Added on: 10/19/2021

Australia Moves Closer to Ending Harmful Intersex Surgeries

10/18/2021

The Australian Human Rights Commission issued a report today analyzing the persistent practice of medically unnecessary non-consensual surgeries on children born with variations in their sex characteristics….

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Added on: 07/25/2021

”OUT FOR AUSTRALIA’ EXISTS TO SUPPORT LGBT STUDENTS & YOUNG PROFESSIONALS’

7/24/21

Less than 32% of LGBTQIA+ employees in Australia are out to everyone in their workplace and studies reveal that this number is going down. Out For Australia…

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Added on: 07/21/2021

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL CANNOT BE AT THE COST OF LGBT RIGHTS, SAYS LIBERAL MP

07/21/2021

The Federal government is set to bring in a new – its third – draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill later this year. But a growing number…

Global News

Added on: 07/19/2021

Alarm as anti-gay messages and Nazi graffiti found in Melbourne

07/18/2021

Victorian based LGBTI Jewish group Aleph Melbourne has voiced concern over anti-gay and Nazi graffiti appearing on Gardiners Trail which weaves it was through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs….