Noah Riseman News Today

Noah Riseman discusses Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance, commemorating those who have served and died in military operations.

In this episode, Evalyn speaks to Ricki Spencer. We talk about sociology, workplace equality, faith, transgender people in teaching, public health, disability services, the cost of living, public housing, the impact of COVID on marginalised groups, advanced care directives, and Noah Riseman's new book which Ricki featured in.

Noah Riseman examines how transgender people have been treated by the courts, media and governments across Australia in the past 100 years.

Noah Riseman is professor of history at Australian Catholic University, where he specialises in Australian histories of sexuality, gender and race.

Australian Catholic University (ACU) sent out an email in February, during Sydney WorldPride celebrations, asking library staff not to publicly display any rainbow flags or stickers.

Librarians put up a rainbow flag to welcome new students. It didn’t last long.

In a historic first, Melbourne's iconic landmark, the Shrine of Remembrance will be bathed in rainbow colours on Sunday August 1, 2022, to honour LGBTQI veterans. Not surprisingly, the decision has run into the usual homophobic and transphobic opposition.

Forty-years ago a group of ex-servicepersons were denied the right to lay a wreath at the Shrine Of Remembrance in Melbourne on Anzac Day in honour of gay and lesbian veterans who had served and died in war.

'We know that you’re a homosexual, we’ve been following you.'This is what a former Australian soldier and cipher operator was told during an interrogation.

Two years after US President Joe Biden declared transgender equality the “civil rights issue of our time”, the issue is now at the centre of Australian politics.