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– NSW has a new premier in Dominic Perrottet. A self-declared social conservative, is social progress under threat? – Victorian Parliament has passed reforms on Assisted Reproductive Treatments. How do the reforms benefit rainbow families, and why don't they go far enough? – Scotland has introduced wide-ranging LGBTQI issues and history into its school curriculum. We speak with one of the activists that pushed for the changes, and an Australian education academic about how Australia is lagging behind on inclusive education.

The Dan Andrews Labor government has signalled long overdue reforms that would ensure religious organisations and schools in Victoria may soon no longer be able to legally fire LGBTQI+ staff on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. 

The 15th annual LGBT+ Pride march on the streets of Melbourne on February 7, 2010. ( Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Pride organisers in Melbourne, Australia, have been called to ban uniformed police officers from an annual parade because the force “pose a risk” to LGBT+ attendees. Midsumma Pride, run by the decades-old arts and culture organisation Midsumma Festival, is facing fierce calls from two top state and local advocacy groups to ban cops from its annual parade on 23 May. For almost two decades, the authorities have taken part in Midsumma Pride, with a contingent from the Victoria Pol...

Simona Castricum in the music video for 'No Allegiance'. (Screen capture via YouTube/Simona Castricum) Trans musician Simona Castricum was left humiliated after a nightclub guard stopped her from using the women’s bathroom, saying she should use the men’s facilities. Castricum, a pioneering Australian musician and DJ, was stopped from using the bathroom in a club in Melbourne, Victoria, early Monday morning (8 March). A security guard at Yah Yah’s, a popular rock n’ roll venue in the Fitzroy neighbourhood, cornered Castricum. “You’re a man, go to the men’s bathroom now,” he ...

More than 6000 young people, aged between 14 and 21, answered questions on education, homelessness, harassment, mental health and community connections over 2019. La Trobe Associate Professor Adam Bourne said the report found that LGBTI young people did suffer ongoing and significant stigma, discrimination, violence and abuse including “in public, in their homes, on the sports field and at school”. “We have to recognise that context as we reflect upon the very high rates of poor mental health that we documented,” Bourne said. Marina Carman, co-author, La Trobe Research Fellow and Dir...