Articles tagged with: Labor Party

Feb26

Over the rainbow on Oxford Street

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

SYDNEY: It seems Sydneysiders and many more across the country have already fallen in love with the rainbow crossing installed across Oxford Street at Taylor Square overnight.

Feb05

Wong named as Deputy Senate Leader

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Finance Minister Penny Wong has been selected as Labor’s Deputy Leader in the Federal Senate after a cabinet and frontbench reshuffle sparked by a number of retirements following Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to hold the next election in mid-September.

Feb04

Labor party commits to removing criminal convictions if elected

Written by // Lana Wilson Categories // News + Politics, Victoria

The Labor Government plans to remove convictions that were made against Victorian gay men in the 1960’s if elected.

Jan30

History on show as Mardi Gras Museum opens

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Sydney Mardi Gras, Victoria, Western Australia

SYDNEY: From its beginnings as a protest against police brutality and corruption to the “creative, celebratory, glamorous” event it has become today, 35 years of Sydney Mardi Gras history is now open to the public following the launch of Australia’s first gay and lesbian museum on Oxford Street this week.

Jan23

University staff fear discrimination laws could lead to more homophobia

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

As the Liberal Party amps up its opposition to Labor’s proposed consolidation of federal anti-discrimination laws, the union representing staff across the nation’s universities has said the laws do not go far enough to protect the LGBTI community from discrimination and, if passed in its current guise, will actually legislate for homophobia.

Jan21

Growing anger over religious exemptions

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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.

Dec20

SA Labor MP Ian Hunter weds in Spain

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, World, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

South Australian Labor MP Ian Hunter has married his partner Leith Semmens in a ceremony in Spain.

Nov15

Transgender community to remember the fallen

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

An official function inside NSW Parliament will help mark this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance which will be held for the fourteenth time next Tuesday to commemorate the lives of those lost or curtailed simply for being transgendered.

Nov06

Marriage equality one step closer in ACT

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

With the Greens deciding to form minority government with the Labor Party over the weekend following a deadlocked election, the newly returned ACT Government has today pledged its intent to follow through with an election promise to introduce territory-based marriage equality legislation in coming months.

Nov02

Libs settle on O’Connor to take on Plibersek

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Young inner-city Liberal Party up-and-comer Sean O’Connor has been preselected to take on Health Minister Tanya Plibersek’s safe Labor seat of Sydney at next year’s federal election.

Oct26

Another Katter considers politics

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

LGBTI rights activist Carl Katter could very well become the latest member of his famous political family to follow that particular career path after it was revealed this week that he has decided to join his local Labor Party branch in Melbourne.

Oct19

Marriage equality advocate throws support behind Greens’ Harris

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

In what some may view as a surprise, the founding convener of lobby group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) has decided to throw his support behind Greens candidate Chris Harris for next weekend’s by-election for the state seat of Sydney.

Oct17

Anti-homophobia school program defended after Devine attack

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

SYDNEY: Articles and editorials by controversial conservative columnist Miranda Devine claiming the NSW Government’s pilot Proud Schools program would make it a “thought crime to regard heterosexuality as the norm in human relationships” has prompted criticism from LGBT health groups, equal rights advocates and the Greens.

Sep20

Greenwich to contest Sydney by-election

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

High-profile gay rights advocate Alex Greenwich has announced he will contest the by-election for the state seat of Sydney as an Independent after today receiving the backing of outgoing popular long-serving MP Clover Moore.

Sep19

Labor MPs side with Coalition to defeat marriage bill

Written by // Serkan Ozturk Categories // News + Politics, National, ACT, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

A marriage equality bill introduced into Federal Parliament has been overwhelmingly defeated in the lower house today after almost half of all Labor MPs sided with leader Julia Gillard and the Coalition to oppose the reform.