Rodney Croome, Author at Star Observer http://www.starobserver.com.au/author/rodney-croome Setting Australia鈥檚 LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:45:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Rodney Croome, Author at Star Observer http://www.starobserver.com.au/author/rodney-croome 32 32 It鈥檚 Time To Replace Unaccountable LGBTIQA+ Elites With Rainbow Democracy /news/its-time-to-replace-unaccountable-lgbtiqa-elites-with-rainbow-democracy/234730 /news/its-time-to-replace-unaccountable-lgbtiqa-elites-with-rainbow-democracy/234730#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2025 01:57:14 +0000 /?p=234730 ‘It鈥檚 Time To Replace Unaccountable LGBTIQA+ Elites With Rainbow Democracy’ is an opinion piece by Just.Equal Australia Vice President and LGBTQIA+ activist Rodney Croome. Who decided to spend tens of ...

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Gender Neutral Blood Donation Comes With Sting In Its Tail /news/gender-neutral-blood-donation-comes-with-sting-in-its-tail/232068 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:52:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=232068 The blanket ban on blood donation by gay men, and bisexual men and transgender women who have sex with men (GBT people), is one step closer to being lifted. The ...

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Atrocious Tasmanian Anti-Gay Conversion Practices Bill Is A Warning For Other States /news/atrocious-tasmanian-anti-gay-conversion-practices-bill-is-a-warning-for-other-states/228308 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:00:16 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=228308 The Tasmanian anti-gay conversion practices bill does more to protect perpetrators than their victims. They鈥檙e not my words. They鈥檙e the words of a Tasmanian legal academic familiar with conversion law ...

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Cutting Through The Spin: Lifeblood鈥檚 Misdirection On Gay Blood Donation /opinion/cutting-through-the-spin-lifebloods-misdirection-on-gay-blood-donation/227260 /opinion/cutting-through-the-spin-lifebloods-misdirection-on-gay-blood-donation/227260#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:08:39 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=227260 The Red Cross Lifeblood Service has begun a public relations campaign that attempts to redefine exclusion as inclusion. It wants to convince the nation that its plan for allowing gay ...

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After Defeating Voice, LGBTIQA+ Australians Are The Next Target Of No Campaigners /news/national-news/after-defeating-voice-lgbtiqa-australians-are-the-next-target-of-no-campaigners/226686 /news/national-news/after-defeating-voice-lgbtiqa-australians-are-the-next-target-of-no-campaigners/226686#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:15:01 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=226686 Empowered by the success of their fear-mongering and division-sowing, No campaigners will turn on us in an attempt to claw back the tolerance we won through marriage equality. We know ...

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Gay Blood Ban: We Can Have A Safe Blood Supply And Donor Equality /news/national-news/gay-blood-ban-we-can-have-a-safe-blood-supply-and-donor-equality/224833 Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:42:40 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=224833 Dr Sharon Dane & Rodney Croome The Australian Lifeblood Service wants to replace an old form of discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender people with a new one. We disagree ...

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It鈥檚 Time For LGBT Australians To Raise Our Voices For Strong Human Rights Protections /opinion/its-time-for-lgbt-australians-to-raise-our-voices-for-strong-human-rights-protections/223907 Thu, 18 May 2023 00:25:26 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=223907 Australia is on the cusp of another debate about whether we should join all other western nations by adopting explicit and comprehensive human rights protections. Parliament is reviewing existing human ...

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WorldPride Shouldn鈥檛 Camouflage Sydney鈥檚 Shame /features/worldpride-shouldnt-camouflage-sydneys-shame/221441 /features/worldpride-shouldnt-camouflage-sydneys-shame/221441#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:21:37 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=221441 Dear LGBTIQA+ visitors to World Pride 2023, Welcome to Australia from every corner of the globe for what is sure to be an enjoyable World Pride 2023. But I want ...

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Australia’s Marriage Equality Vote: Compromising With Prejudice Was Not Necessary To Win Marriage聽 聽 /news/australias-marriage-equality-vote-compromising-with-prejudice-was-not-necessary-to-win-marriage/218546 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:53:24 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=218546 For five years we have been told that the 2017 marriage postal survey and subsequent legislation allowing LGBTIQA+ marriages was an entirely inspiring story of equality winning against the odds. ...

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Qld Conversion Law Shows Prejudice Remains A Threat /opinion/qld-conversion-law-shows-prejudice-remains-a-threat/197337 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:30:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=197337 I know what it鈥檚 like to live in a state that is wrongly seen as backward on LGBTQI rights and rarely has its successes celebrated. That鈥檚 why I was reluctant ...

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Labor must stand against the Religious Discrimination Bill now /opinion/labor-must-stand-against-the-religious-discrimination-bill-now/187704 /opinion/labor-must-stand-against-the-religious-discrimination-bill-now/187704#comments Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:54:42 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=187704 As the weeks wear on since the Morrison Government鈥檚 Religious Discrimination Bill was unveiled, Labor鈥檚 silence becomes more conspicuous and troubling with every day. The Labor Party says it is ...

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United, we can stop the erosion of our rights /opinion/united-we-can-stop-the-erosion-of-our-rights/185676 /opinion/united-we-can-stop-the-erosion-of-our-rights/185676#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:36:32 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=185676 Last week I was lobbying federal politicians with a simple ask – don鈥檛 allow more discrimination against LGBTQI people in the name of 鈥渞eligious freedom.鈥 I was there with PFLAG ...

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LGBTI Australians must prepare for a long battle against the erosion of our rights /opinion/australians-must-prepare-for-a-long-battle-against-the-erosion-of-lgbti-rights-religious-freedom/184362 /opinion/australians-must-prepare-for-a-long-battle-against-the-erosion-of-lgbti-rights-religious-freedom/184362#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2019 06:16:06 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=184362 "We have to face the stark reality that the movement to weaken Australia鈥檚 LGBTI legal rights under cover of religious freedom is not going away."

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‘It’s time to aim high’: Rodney Croome on fighting for full LGBTI equality /news/national-news/its-time-to-aim-high-rodney-croome-fighting-for-full-lgbti-equality/179232 /news/national-news/its-time-to-aim-high-rodney-croome-fighting-for-full-lgbti-equality/179232#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2019 03:56:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=179232 "We should be aiming for full equality in every sphere of our lives, from school to employment, from birth certificate recognition to blood donation, and聽accessing services to marriage."

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Turning the 2019 election into an opportunity for real change for the LGBTI community /news/national-news/turning-the-2019-election-into-an-opportunity-for-real-change-for-the-lgbti-community/174858 /news/national-news/turning-the-2019-election-into-an-opportunity-for-real-change-for-the-lgbti-community/174858#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:30:57 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=174858 In the lead up to the federal election the Coalition will push culture war buttons marked "religious freedom", "gender fluidity", and "Safe Schools" more than ever.

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One year later, marriage equality has changed the relationship between LGBTI people and society /news/national-news/one-year-later-marriage-equality-has-changed-relationship-between-lgbti-people-society/174043 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 03:12:00 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=174043 "Sometimes it's subtle, like when relatives who once rarely referred to my partner now ask me how he is. Sometimes it's more direct, like when a plumber says 'take a few days to discuss it with the hubby'."

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‘Labor should defend us this time around’: why religious freedom is the new Howard marriage ban /news/national-news/labor-should-defend-this-time-around-why-religious-freedom-new-howard-marriage-ban/172043 /news/national-news/labor-should-defend-this-time-around-why-religious-freedom-new-howard-marriage-ban/172043#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2018 01:25:29 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=172043 "While weakening discrimination laws may win some votes in Western Sydney, it will lose votes elsewhere."

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The Ruddock inquiry will be used by Liberals to drive a wedge between Labor members /news/national-news/ruddock-inquiry-liberals-wedge-labor-members/165320 /news/national-news/ruddock-inquiry-liberals-wedge-labor-members/165320#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2018 06:14:41 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=165320 "We need to campaign hard against the dismantling of anti-discrimination protections in the name of 'religious freedom'"

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‘The fight for SSM had built up over a decade’: how the ground was laid for the Senate vote /news/national-news/fight-ssm-built-decade-how-ground-laid-senate-vote/164357 /news/national-news/fight-ssm-built-decade-how-ground-laid-senate-vote/164357#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:15:47 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=164357 The fate of marriage equality now rests in the hands of the House of Representatives.

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Australia’s LGBTI community will soon face the most difficult choice we’ve had to make /news/national-news/australia-lgbti-community-difficult-choice-make/163472 /news/national-news/australia-lgbti-community-difficult-choice-make/163472#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2017 06:46:59 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=163472 "LGBTI people will be told to accept new forms of discrimination in return for our right to marry, or continue to be excluded from marriage"

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