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Three-quarters reject key religious discrimination bill clause while almost 65% say it should be illegal for religious schools to expel LGBTQ+ students

A Brisbane school which is requiring parents to sign a contract which asks them to confirm that their children must identify as their birth gender or be excluded has faced massive public backlash.

Greece has lifted its decades-long ban on queer men donating blood following the signing of a ministerial decree on Monday in the Hellenic Parliament.

A third Australian legend has handed back his Order of Australia award after selectors also acknowledged controversial tennis star Margaret Court for the top honour. Renowned artist Peter Kingston was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012, but has since returned his medal. The painter, most famous for capturing Sydney Harbour, stood in solidarity with veteran television journalist Kerry OBrien and general practitioner Clara Tuck Meng Soo, who both returned their medals.   Court wa...

Veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien has rejected an Australia Day award to protest the decision to give Margaret Court the country’s highest honour. O’Brien wrote to the governor general’s secretary on Sunday explaining there must be something “fundamentally wrong” with the honours system given the “deeply insensitive and divisive decision” to appoint Court a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). He cited Court’s “hurtful and divisive...

OBrien, a legendary ABC reporter with more than 50 years experience, was to be appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia - the second highest honour. But he has now turned it down.

Clara Tuck Meng Soo said the decision to award Australias highest honour to the outspoken tennis great promotes discrimination to LGBTQ people.

Order of Australia Medial recipient Clara Tuck Meng Soo says she believes Margaret Court's award reinforces harmful attitudes towards LGBTIQ+ community amid calls for the Australia Day honours process to be reformed.