As a Senate committee prepares to hold public hearings in Sydney this week on Labor's draft national anti-discrimination laws, there’s growing outrage within the LGBTI community and elsewhere over the wide-ranging exemptions offered to religious bodies and other groups that will allow them to continue to legally discriminate against people on several grounds including sexual orientation and gender identity.

Long fought for and heralded by many as a watershed moment, the Commonwealth has this week launched its first ever National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Strategy as part of a $3.7 billion aged care reform package.

ADELAIDE: Alex Dunkin discovers there are different levels of support for LGBTI students across South Australia’s three home-grown Universities.

The Australian Government will include LGBTI people as a special needs group under the Aged Care Act, and will allocate $2.5m over the next five years for LGBTI training of the aged care workforce, in an announcement greatly welcomed by the likes of ACON and the National LGBTI Health Alliance.