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Eight Australian picture books that celebrate family diversity

January 14 - Books, News, Opinion

The official label used by the Australian government to define a traditional family (a two parent family with biological or adopted children only) is “intact”: Not damaged or impaired in any way. Complete. Whole. Unbroke...

A year since the marriage equality vote, much has been gained – and th...

November 15 - News, Opinion

November 15, 2018 is the one-year anniversary of Australians voting “yes” to marriage equality. The survey was an unprecedented two-month exercise in engaging with current Australian community values around sexuality and...

Explainer: why removing sex from birth certificates matters to gender ...

October 30 - News, Opinion

Next month, Tasmania’s parliament will consider a bill that would remove sex from birth certificates. If it passes, it would be the first state in Australia to take such a step. Under the proposed law, a baby’s sex would...

Boy Erased Lucas Hedges and Théodore Pellerin

Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conver...

October 25 - Arts & Entertainment, Film, News, Opinion

I always try my hardest to go into every film with an open mind and not write off anything before I see it. This was particularly hard to do with Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased. I was trepidatious about going to see the film...

Why legislation should ban schools from discriminating against LGBTIQ+...

October 17 - News, Opinion

Over the weekend, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced his government would make amendments to discrimination legislation to make clear no student at a private or religious school should be expelled on the basis of th...

Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members...

October 6 - News, Opinion

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) banned lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel from serving openly until November 1992, and there were restrictions on transgender service until September 2010. Even so, we know LGBT people...

Explainer: what does it mean to be ‘cisgender’?

October 1 - News, Opinion

As a term and concept, “transgender” is now firmly embedded in common parlance and popular consciousness. In Australia in the last few weeks alone there have been major news stories about transgender footballer Hannah Mo...

Coming out at work is not a one-off event

August 17 - News, Opinion

For many LGBTIQ+ workers coming out is a never-ending process. A recent study in the UK shows coming out at work is still a problem. Research, to be launched in Sydney on August 27, supports this finding and further unpa...