The long-awaited reforms will make serious vilification – such as incitement of hatred or physical threats – punishable by up to five years’ jail.
The prize-winning novelist on the cruelty faced by trans people – and how opponents have used stories of detransitioning to ‘weaponise regret’.
The author has renewed her public disagreement with the films’ child stars Daniel Radcliffe,Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
Palmer targeted transgender issues in a National Press Club address on Thursday,while at the same time claiming Australia’s public debate was being derailed by the topic.
Aidan McLindon,the former Freedom Party candidate who became an outer-suburban mayor,is at war with his own council after he was barred from attending meetings over repeated allegations of poor behaviour.
Mark da Costa says he’s a different man to the one who made a string of homophobic comments in 2020. But some inner west residents will boycott his new venue.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a surprise return to Mardi Gras on Saturday night,marching down Oxford Street in front of tens of thousands of spectators.
Follow our live coverage as 10,000 marchers make their way down a crowd-lined Oxford Street for the 47th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
A first-time float will celebrate one suburb’s LGBTQ community and its First Nations people. “You go through a lot of struggles being both,” a marcher said.
Read our guide to the road closures,planned track work and night-time public transport for the Mardi Gras Parade.