Australian Capital Territory Archives - Star Observer /category/news/national-news/australian-capital-territory Setting Australia鈥檚 LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:27:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Australian Capital Territory Archives - Star Observer /category/news/national-news/australian-capital-territory 32 32 The LGBT Activists Marching Proudly At The Rising Tide Climate Protests /news/the-lgbt-activists-marching-proudly-at-the-rising-tide-climate-protests/234145 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:27:06 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=234145 Hundreds of Queer activists joined the huge Rising Tide protest in Newcastle and Canberra last week, calling for an end to new approvals for coal and gas projects and higher ...

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Canberra Police Issue Search Warrants and Seize Devices Over Grindr Attacks /news/canberra-police-issue-search-warrants-and-seize-devices-over-grindr-attacks/233252 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:20:39 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=233252 ACT Policing has intensified its investigation into the alleged homophobic assaults of three men in Canberra, all of whom were targeted through the dating app Grindr in July. As part ...

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Canberra SpringOUT Withdraws Police From Pride Fair Day /news/canberra-springout-withdraws-police-from-pride-fair-day/232891 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:27:10 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=232891 Following recent community feedback the Canberra SpringOUT committee has announced they will not allow a police presence at the 2024 Pride Fair Day. The committee have issued a statement addressing ...

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Police Investigate Chilling Grindr Attacks in Canberra /news/national-news/police-investigate-chilling-grindr-attacks-in-canberra/232159 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:59:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=232159 In distressing news, ACT Police are investigating two alleged homophobic assaults in Canberra, where gay men were lured via dating apps such as Grindr, and attacked. These incidents, which took ...

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Conversion Practices In ACT May Still Be Taking Place Post-Ban /news/act-conversion-practices-may/229887 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:33:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=229887 A review of the ACT鈥檚 laws banning sexuality and gender identity conversion practices that came into effect in 2021 has found that, despite no charges laid since the Act鈥檚 introduction, ...

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SpringOut Pride Festival: Canberra鈥檚 Pride Celebration Like No-Other /whats-on/canberra/springout-pride-festival-canberras-pride-celebration-like-no-other/227100 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:25:06 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=227100 Do not miss out on Canberra鈥檚 biggest Pride celebration of the year, SpringOut Pride Festival, with fabulous queer-inclusive events all throughout November. Starting as the 鈥淔airday Frolic鈥 and march at ...

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Senator Lidia Thorpe Thrown To The Ground At Kellie-Jay Keen’s Anti-Trans Rally /news/national-news/senator-lidia-thorpe-thrown-to-the-ground-at-kellie-jay-keens-anti-trans-rally/222720 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:11:24 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=222720 Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe was manhandled and thrown to the ground by police and private security guards when she attempted to confront British anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen in Canberra on ...

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ACT Intersex Legislation Brings Protection, But More Importantly, Fosters Connection /news/act-intersex-legislation-brings-protection-but-more-importantly-fosters-connection/222594 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:00:44 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=222594 By Bonnie Hart Proposed legislation in the Australian Capital Territory to protect the human rights of people, particularly children, with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex) in medical settings, will ...

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Australia’s Only Gay Head Of Government Calls Out ‘Problematic’ Monkeypox Commentary /news/australias-only-gay-head-of-govt-calls-out-problematic-monkeypox-commentary/215445 Fri, 05 Aug 2022 06:07:56 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=215445 ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, Australia’s only out gay head of government, has an important message for public health authorities dealing with the monkeypox outbreak.聽 Barr said that it was ...

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Canberra Man Arrested For Allegedly Drugging, Raping And Robbing Grindr Date /news/canberra-man-arrested-for-drugging-raping-and-robbing-grindr-date/215348 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:00:18 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=215348 A 22-year-old Canberra youth has been arrested and charged with allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a man he met via the gay dating app Grindr.聽 Trigger Warning: This story discusses ...

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Australian-First Law Proposed To End Harmful & Non-Consensual Surgeries On Intersex People /news/australian-first-law-proposed-to-end-harmful-non-consensual-surgeries-on-intersex-people/213393 Tue, 31 May 2022 13:55:54 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=213393 The ACT government has released the first draft of its proposed legislation that seeks to prevent harmful medical interventions on intersex people without their consent. Intersex advocates welcomed the Australian-first ...

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Out Gay Hockey Player Davis Atkin Selected In Australia’s Under-21 Team聽 /news/out-gay-hockey-player-davis-atkin-makes-it-to-australias-under-21-team/211930 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:32:33 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=211930 Australia’s out gay hockey player Davis Atkin has been named to the Burras – the national men’s under-21 squad. Canberra-based Western Districts player Atkin (21) is currently Australia’s only out ...

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Peta Credlin Claims Liberal Staffer Had Orgies At Parliament House /news/national-news/australian-capital-territory/peta-credlin-claims-liberal-staffer-had-orgies-at-parliament-house/201735 /news/national-news/australian-capital-territory/peta-credlin-claims-liberal-staffer-had-orgies-at-parliament-house/201735#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:30:45 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=201735 Sky 今日吃瓜 host Peta Credlin on Wednesday night dropped a bombshell that male Liberal staffers had held “orgies” with other men at Parliament House. Credlin, was recently endorsed by former ...

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ACT Proposes Decriminalising MDMA, Heroin & Ice Possession /news/act-potentially-set-to-decriminalise-hard-drugs/199214 /news/act-potentially-set-to-decriminalise-hard-drugs/199214#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:00:32 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=199214 The ACT could soon decriminalise small amounts of illicit substances such as heroin, MDMA and methamphetamine under a radical new bill set to be introduced to the ACT Legislative Assembly ...

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Openly Gay Chief Minister Andrew Barr Leads Labor To Victory In ACT /news/openly-gay-chief-minister-andrew-barr-leads-labor-to-victory-in-act/198103 /news/openly-gay-chief-minister-andrew-barr-leads-labor-to-victory-in-act/198103#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:27:44 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=198103 Australia’s first and only openly gay head of state or territory, Andrew Barr, led the Labor party to victory for a sixth consecutive term in Saturday’s 2020 ACT elections. Barr ...

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Andrew Barr Aims To Make Canberra Australia’s Most LGBTQI Friendly City /news/andrew-barr-aims-to-make-canberra-australias-most-lgbtqi-friendly-city/198033 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:30:00 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=198033 From bushfires and a hail storm at the start of the year to the ongoing global pandemic, this year has tested Andrew Barr’s leadership skills like no other. When Barr ...

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ACT Tribunal Rules Radio Personality Beth Rep Vilified Trans Activist /news/act-tribunal-rules-radio-personality-beth-rep-vilified-trans-activist/197662 Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:09:24 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=197662 鈥淚t鈥檚 totally undermining of everything, your confidence, your self-worth, anything that is positive in your everyday life is just undermined by this stuff. The online world isn鈥檛 this abstract thing, ...

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Greens Candidate Calls Out Liberal Over ‘Too Camp To Win’ Barb /news/greens-candidate-calls-out-liberal-over-too-camp-to-win-barb/197596 /news/greens-candidate-calls-out-liberal-over-too-camp-to-win-barb/197596#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:00:25 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=197596 A Greens candidate in the ACT Parliament elections has called out his rival and the person he is seeking to replace, over the Liberal MLA’s comment that he was “too ...

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Conversion Therapy On Kids Now A Crime In ACT /news/conversion-therapy-on-kids-now-a-crime-in-act/197390 /news/conversion-therapy-on-kids-now-a-crime-in-act/197390#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:51:31 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=197390 Conversion practices performed on a child or a person with impaired decision making ability will be a crime in the Australian Capital Territory and can invite a prison term of ...

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Uniting Church Ministers Support ACT Conversion Practices Ban /news/uniting-church-ministers-support-act-conversion-practices-ban/197369 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:30:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=197369 Sixteen Uniting Church ministers have in a joint letter extended their support to the ACT government’s new law that seeks to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices. This is ...

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