Equality Australia welcomes call from AMA to enhance access to gender...
February 12, 2024 - National LGBTIQ+ group Equality Australia has welcomed calls by Australia’s peak medical body to urgently improve access to gender-affirming care and to protect the doctors...
View ArticleLGBTIQ+ community welcomes NSW government bill banning conversion practices,...
13 March 2024 - Survivors and Equality Australia have today welcomed a bill that will ban LGBTQA+ conversion practices in NSW. The NSW government bill criminalises conversion practices that seek to...
View ArticleNational LGBTIQ+ group Equality Australia is urging the Federal Government...
National LGBTIQ+ group Equality Australia is urging the Federal Government not to delay legal protections for LGBTQ+ staff and students in religious schools. “If the Prime Minister is serious about...
View ArticleGovt urged to act after inquiry backs change to protect students and staff in...
21 March, 2024 – National LGBTIQ+ group Equality Australia and women’s groups are calling on the Federal Government to adopt the recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s...
View ArticleNew laws removing barriers to gender recognition welcomed in ACT
21 March 2024 - LGBTIQ+ groups have welcomed new laws that remove cruel and unnecessary barriers to gender recognition in the ACT. The reforms passed 12 votes to 5 in ACT Parliament on Tuesday...
View ArticleCommunity welcomes passing of LGBTQA+ conversion ban in NSW
22 March 2024 – Survivors and Equality Australia have welcomed the passing of landmark legislation banning LGBTQA+ conversion practices in NSW. The NSW government bill passed 22 votes to 4 early on...
View ArticleDiscrimination endemic in religious schools around Australia: new report finds
March 25, 2024 - LGBTQ+ discrimination is endemic in religious schools and organisations around Australia, a groundbreaking report by Equality Australia has found. Australia is also out of step with...
View ArticleEquality Australia welcomes PM’s stance on protections for LGBTIQ+ staff and...
March 26, 2024 - Equality Australia has welcomed reports that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is open to working with the Greens to secure support for reforms that will protect LGBTQ+ students and...
View ArticleCatholic declaration ignores the voices of LGBTIQ+ people of faith
9 April, 2024 - The Vatican’s Infinite Dignity declaration ignores the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ people of faith as well as loving rainbow families, advocates and allies say. In a new document...
View ArticleCass Review out-of-line with medical consensus and lacks relevance in...
10 April, 2024 – England’s Cass review ignores the consensus of major medical bodies around the world and lacks relevance within an Australian context, say medical practitioners, trans advocates,...
View ArticleLGBTIQA+ advocates welcome end of ‘Gender Reassignment Board’, urge WA...
17 April 2024 – WA and national LGBTIQA+ groups have today welcomed the introduction of a Bill abolishing the WA Gender Reassignment Board, but say that the long-awaited gender recognition reforms...
View ArticleWomen’s, faith, community and health voices back NSW LGBTIQA+ reforms
30 April 2024 – Welfare, health, family, faith and women’s groups have joined forces with LGBTIQ+ groups to call on the state government to back the NSW Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill...
View ArticleThorpey teams up with Equality Australia to protect students and staff
30 April, 2024 – Olympic legend Ian Thorpe has joined forces with Equality Australia to campaign for urgent federal reforms that will protect women, people of faith and LGBTQ+ students and staff in...
View ArticleEquality Australia backs grandmother’s fight to reverse Western Sydney...
8 May, 2024 – National LGBTIQ+ group Equality Australia is backing a proud grandmother in her fight to reverse a decision by her Western Sydney council to ban books featuring same-sex parents....
View ArticleEquality Australia welcomes apology, calls for NSW legal reform
11 May, 2024 – Equality Australia has welcomed news the NSW government will make a formal state apology to people convicted under laws that criminalised homosexual acts and called for more legal...
View Article50,000 call on Cumberland Council to reverse same-sex book ban at meeting...
15 May, 2024 – More than 50,000 people have signed petitions calling on Cumberland Council to reverse a ban on books featuring same-sex parents, ahead of a vote on Wednesday night. Local grandmother...
View ArticleGrandmother and Equality Australia welcome reversal of Cumberland Council...
15 May, 2024 – National LGBTIQ+ group Equality Australia and local grandmother Caroline Staples have welcomed the reversal of a ban by Cumberland Council on books featuring same-sex parents. The...
View ArticleGovt urged to pursue all options to secure protections for staff and students...
29 May, 2024 – Equality Australia has called on the Federal Government to work across the parliament to secure support for reforms that will protect students and staff in religious schools. “There...
View ArticleNSW parliamentary inquiry clears way for Equality Bill
3 June 2024 - LGBTIQ+ organisations have welcomed the findings of a parliamentary inquiry that has cleared the way for NSW Parliament to consider the LGBTIQA+ Equality Bill, saying it’s time all...
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Statement from the Community
In 1984 our love was finally decriminalised. Our brave elders walked out of the bars and into the streets to make this possible. Ten years on, in 1994, we were mourning a generation, many of them...
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