|
|
|
|
Coalition set to stall same-sex reform
REFORMS to let gay couples inherit each other's federal pensions or superannuation could be delayed until after their proposed July 1 start date as the Coalition moves to refer the issue to a Senate inquiry.
Read more... |
|
|
Donna Rose and Jamison Green
|
|
|
Two Transgender Members Quit Group
Wednesday November 28
Guardian Unlimited - UK
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two transgender members of the Human Rights Campaign quit Tuesday, saying the group's support of an employment nondiscrimination bill that excluded transgender workers put them "in an untenable position.''
Read more... |
|
|
... at the Day of Remembrance
|
|
|
TRANSGENDERED REMEMBERED
by Cara Davis
SSO, 22/11/2007
Trans people who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice were last week commemorated at the Transgender Day of Remembrance in Sydney.
Read more... |
|
|
Senator Bob Brown and Jenny Leong
|
|
|
FULL EQUALITY: BEYOND MARRIAGE
by Jenny Leong 13/11/2007
This election we need to get rid of the Howard government but we also need to get rid of his divisive and destructive project, a project that plays the race card, uses banning of marriage as a political tool, fails to act on climate change, introduces unfair workplace laws and prioritises tax cuts over investment in public services.
Read more... |
|
|
|
Rudd rejects gay marriage
Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent
The Australian | October 23, 2007
KEVIN Rudd has rejected homosexual marriage, insisting the institution should be reserved for men and women.
But the Labor Leader has also insisted on equal legal rights for homosexual couples in all other areas, including superannuation and inheritance.
Read more... |
|
|
Jenny Leong, Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle.
|
|
|
GREENS PROMISE BILL OF RIGHTS
by Harley Dennett
Sydney Star Observer
18th October 2007
The Greens launched the re-election campaign of NSW senator Kerry Nettle on Friday, pledging to use its numbers to push for a referendum on a Bill of Rights.
Read more... |
|
|
|
Greens announce campaign to target Turnbull, Plibersek and Albanese on marriage rights
11 . 10 .07
Senator Kerry Nettle has launched The Greens' Sexuality and Gender Identity Policy at a popular bar on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst.
Senator Nettle also announced a targeted letterboxing campaign in the seats of Wentworth, Sydney and Grayndler about same-sex marriage.
"The Greens are committed to removing all discrimination against the gay and lesbian community. This includes the ban on same-sex marriage which both Labor and Liberal supported." Senator Nettle said.
Read more... |
|
|
No living a lie: Janet Rice (left) with husband Penny — formerly Peter — Whetton.
|
|
|
Gender changes, but a wife's love stays
September 9, 2007
Greens candidate married Peter, who is now Penny, reports William Birnbauer.
JANET Rice arches forward in her seat, her eyes on high beam and her manner direct. "Absolutely," she declares when asked if she would discuss her personal life. "If you don't talk about it, it's going to be used against you."
Read more... |
|
|
|
|
Councillor Chris Harris
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party âindependentsâ and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the Cityâs tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the cityâs western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party
members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the Cityâs laneways.
The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]
|