Dispute over ABC TV restructureSYDNEY — ABC TV technical staff have been involved in an ongoing dispute over restructuring as federal government budget cuts begin to take effect. In a bid to restructure ABC TV and radio into
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SYDNEY — More than 6000 people rallied outside NSW Parliament House on October 22, demanding the equalisation of age of consent laws. When homosexuality was decriminalised in NSW 13 years ago, ALP Premier Barry
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As machinations continue over the development of guidelines for the new Non-Violent Erotica (NVE) category for film and video, public access to a range of erotic films and videos looks set to be drastically reduced. Following its
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Gay and lesbian rights book launchedSYDNEY — Around 40 people attended a launch of the Democratic Socialist Party's new book, Socialism and the Struggle for the Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men, on July 26. The meeting was
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The Howard government has moved to increase censorship, in the name of "protecting" women, children and families from the horrors of family breakdown, suicide, youth homelessness and unemployment. Sections of the media and "morals
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HOBART — On May 1 Tasmanian legislative councillors voted almost unanimously to repeal that state's anti-gay laws, bringing Tasmania into line with the rest of Australia. The decision is a victory for a nine-year
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Tasmanian case goes to High CourtOn September 10, Tasmanian activists took their campaign to repeal state anti-gay laws to the High Court. The court has been requested to hear a case which will seek to declare the laws invalid on
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SYDNEY — Staff from every department of ABC TV and Radio held stop-work meetings here on July 17, after planned budget cuts were announced by the federal communications minister, Senator Richard Alston. The
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The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) created a public furore on April 30 when it adopted controversial new guidelines for membership requirements for people not identifying as gay, lesbian, homosexual or transgender. SGLMG
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The release of Helen Garner's The First Stone earlier this year hit a nerve. The book ostensibly described, in fictional terms, the case of a master at a Melbourne University college accused of sexually harassing two
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Garner lashes back@column = It is the best thing that ever happened to her career. Plucked from relative intellectual obscurity, Helen Garner has become a darling of establishment circles. Invited to speak on
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Blame the system@column = Susan Smith, the woman who, in desperation, killed her two children and then blamed their disappearances on a black man who hijacked her car, has become the latest victim in that great