PricewaterhouseCoopers is looking forward to the federal budget with dollar signs in its eyes, argues Liam Cross.
Australian Christian Lobby
If we needed more proof that the 鈥渞eligious discrimination鈥 bill was anything more than an attempt to discriminate against the LGBTIQ community, the Australian Christian Lobby provided it, argues聽Petrina Harley.
With the High Court ruling that the government鈥檚 postal survey on marriage equality is legal, it鈥檚 full steam ahead with the much-vaunted respectful debate.
We can expect more No campaign ads like the one where a mother the principal at her son鈥檚 school told him he could wear a dress to school if he chose.
Ever since it was announced, the federal government鈥檚 postal survey on marriage equality has been met with responses questioning both the legitimacy of the survey and demonstrating support for marriage equality 鈥 responses that have been vital for the confidence and morale of members of the LGBTIQ community.
Despite this, the right, particularly the Christian right, has demonstrated its determination to defeat the push for marriage equality through the mobilisation of homophobic and transphobic hatred and disinformation.
On March 18, a day that was supposed to be the National Day of Action Against Bullying, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced devastating attacks on a crucial anti-bullying program.
The Safe Schools Coalition is an alliance of 535 primary and secondary schools across the country, which aims to ensure the safety of LGBTI students. The program began in 2014 under the Abbott government. It has already engaged more than 13,000 education professionals.
Students at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in Sydney have won a battle to change their uniform policy and allow students to wear boys or girls uniforms regardless of their gender.
Jo Dwyer, a year 11 student at the school said: "Our aim was to remove the un-inclusive gender labels from the school uniform, and make it so that anyone could wear any aspect of the uniform without having to go through a long and difficult process."
Australian lawmakers are set to begin debating marriage equality, and the anti-equality brigade is not happy at all.
The Australian Christian Lobby鈥檚 managing director Lyle Shelton is the public face of the campaign against marriage equality in Australia.
I certainly don鈥檛 agree with him on everything, but I do agree with his motto, which can be aptly summarised by Helen Lovejoy鈥檚 catchphrase, 鈥渨on鈥檛 somebody please think of the children.鈥 But for once in my life I should make a minor confession: I mostly agree out of pure narcissism.
This is my open letter to Shelton.
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