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Josh Manuatu: where have we heard that name before?
The Australian newspaper today named Josh Manuatu, a staffer to Energy Minister Angus Taylor, as responsible for obtaining false figures on City of Sydney council travel. The newspaper also claims Manuata forwarded those figures to the Daily Telegraph. The ongoing controversy began when Taylor claimed that Clover Moore’s City of Sydney Council spent $15.9 million …
Senator Fraser Anning’s Facebook Page Reinstated After Removal
Katter’s Australia Party Senator Fraser Anning’s Facebook page has been reinstated after it was “unpublished” by the social media giant. On Friday, the Queensland Senator’s page and all of his posts was removed from public view on the platform, and media reports on Friday evening indicated it was in part the result of users reporting …
OPINION: Why Education About Gender and Sexuality Does Belong In the Classroom
By David Rhodes, Edith Cowan University There is currently no consistent standard of sex, sexuality, gender and respectful relationships education across Australian schools. Each state and territory makes decisions about what they teach in schools. Additionally, religious schools have exemptions under anti-discrimination laws to decide how they approach these issues, and whether they include them …
WA Liberal Opposition Leader Vows To Defund Safe Schools If Elected
The Liberal Party of Western Australia Has pledged to pull funding from the state’s Safe Schools LGBTIQ anti-bullying program and redirect it towards rural education if elected. WA Opposition Leader Mike Nahan (pictured) told his party’s state conference the program would be defunded so as to keep regional schools in the state open, ABC News …
‘Australian Sex Education Isn’t Diverse Enough, And We Should Follow The UK’s Lead’
By David Rhodes, Edith Cowan University How children are taught about sex, relationships and sexuality at school is shaping up to be a political hot potato in Australia (again). It’s already been slated to be an issue in the Victorian state elections later this year. That’s just a short time from being on the agenda …
LGBTIQ People Share Their Stories At Kevin Andrews’ Anti-Safe Schools Event
LGBTIQ community members have shared personal stories of classroom discrimination with a crowd of Safe Schools opponents during a public meeting convened by Liberal MP Kevin Andrews in Hobart on Tuesday night. Andrews and Catholic Archbishop Julian Porteous addressed the public lecture, held at Hobart Town Hall, and criticised the Safe Schools anti-bullying program. Writing …
Anti-Safe Schools Campaigner Marijke Rancie Elected To Victorian Liberal Party
Anti-Safe Schools campaigner Marijke Rancie has been elected as a delegate within the Victorian branch of the Liberal party. Rancie featured in the Coalition For Marriage’s “It’s Ok to Vote No” ad campaign during last year’s marriage postal survey and is a high-profile opponent of the Safe Schools anti-bullying program. The Victorian mother posts on …
Catherine McGregor says she was wrong to oppose Safe Schools
Former military officer and high-profile trans advocate Catherine McGregor has apologised and said she was “wrong” to oppose the Safe Schools anti-bullying program in 2016. Catherine McGregor wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that she put her change of mind down to working with a young transgender man, Charles O’Grady, on a theatre production based …
Celebrity-Backed Campaign For ‘Safe Schools Alternative’ Withdrawn
One of the organisers behind a controversial letter calling for an alternative to the Safe Schools program has withdrawn the campaign and apologised to the LGBTI community. The letter and accompanying petition, unveiled on Tuesday and apparently signed by local celebrities including Troye Sivan, Joel Creasey, Missy Higgins and Guy Pearce, called on the federal …
Abetz Staffer accused of publicly humiliating gay teenager
A gay teenager accuses a staffer for Senator Eric Abetz of using his personal Facebook page to publicly humiliate him. Josh Manuatu also used an image of the minor beside a message originally sent to him in a private forum. Joshua, 17, took issue with Manuatu after he went for the jugular of the “PC …
