Tasmania Archives - Star Observer /category/news/national-news/tasmania Setting Australia鈥檚 LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:51:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Tasmania Archives - Star Observer /category/news/national-news/tasmania 32 32 Support for Financial Redress Up To $75k For Tasmanians with Historic Homosexuality Convictions /news/support-for-financial-redress-up-to-75k-for-tasmanians-with-historic-homosexuality-convictions/235823 /news/support-for-financial-redress-up-to-75k-for-tasmanians-with-historic-homosexuality-convictions/235823#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:51:58 +0000 /?p=235823 Tasmania鈥檚 Gender and Equality Committee has recommended that individuals with historic homosexuality convictions under the state’s former laws should receive financial redress of up to $75,000. The proposal, which has ...

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Tasmanian Councillor Condemned for Demonising Queer Eye Star /news/tasmanian-councillor-condemned-for-demonising-queer-eye-star/234906 /news/tasmanian-councillor-condemned-for-demonising-queer-eye-star/234906#comments Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:31:38 +0000 /?p=234906 Tasmanian City Councillor for Burnie Trent Aitken has faced widespread backlash for a social media post criticising non-binary star of Queer Eye, Jonathon van Ness, for their choice of attire ...

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Tasmanian Government Champions LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in Census /news/tasmanian-government-champions-lgbtqia-inclusion-in-census/233899 Sat, 16 Nov 2024 05:38:22 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=233899 The Tasmanian Government has taken a firm stance in favour of comprehensive LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the 2026 Census, urging the Federal Government to align its efforts with Tasmania’s progressive approach. ...

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Tasmania Launches Landmark LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Action Plan /news/tasmania-doh-lgbtiqa-launches-action-plan233887/233887 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:32:31 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=233887 Tasmania鈥檚 Department of Health and LGBTIQA+ Reference Group launches long-awaited LGBTIQA+ Action Plan to be implemented over the next three years. The plan aims to improve inclusive healthcare for the ...

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Tasmania Commemorates 30 Years Since Human Rights Commission Anti-Gay Condemnation /news/tasmania-commemorates-30-years-since-human-rights-commission-anti-gay-condemnation/229953 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:24:22 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=229953 A historical panel has today been unveiled in Tasmania to mark 30 years since the United Nations Human Rights Commission condemned Tasmania’s former anti-gay laws, declaring them a breach of ...

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Labor, Greens Promise To Ban Anti-Gay Conversion Practices In Tasmania If Elected /news/national-news/labor-greens-promise-to-ban-anti-gay-conversion-practices-in-tasmania-if-elected/229179 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:29:37 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=229179 Labor and Greens have committed to important LGBTQI law reforms, including a ban on anti-gay conversion practices in Tasmania if elected.聽 The elections in Tasmania are scheduled to be held ...

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Commit To Banning Anti-Gay Conversion Practices, LGBT Group Tells Tasmania’s Political Parties /news/national-news/commit-to-banning-anti-gay-conversion-practices-lgbt-group-tells-tasmanias-political-parties/228700 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:02:10 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=228700 In the lead-up to the state elections in Tasmania, LGBTQI advocacy group Equality Tasmania said they will seek a commitment from all parties and independents to bring in a ban ...

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Tasmania’s Proposed Bill To Ban Gay Conversion Practices Panned /news/national-news/tasmanias-proposed-bill-to-ban-gay-conversion-practices-panned/227665 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:58:53 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=227665 Tasmanian government released a draft bill to ban conversion practices, but LGBTQI advocates say if passed the law would allow the harmful practice to continue to be practised in the ...

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Tasmania Rejects Demands For Compensation For Victims Of Anti-Gay Laws /news/national-news/tasmania-rejects-demands-for-compensation-for-victims-of-anti-gay-laws/226934 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:47:23 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=226934 Tasmania’s Liberal government has rejected calls from LGBTQI advocacy groups to pay compensation to victims of the state’s former anti-gay laws.聽 Attorney General Gyu Barnett recently introduced amendments to the ...

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Tasmania To Expand Expungement For Historical Gay Convictions With Advocates Calling For Compensation /news/tasmania-to-expand-expungement-for-historical-gay-convictions-with-advocates-calling-for-compensation/225895 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:32:09 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=225895 The Tasmanian Government has drafted a new bill to expand historical gay and transgender criminal changes to be expunged. The reform to the Expungement of Historical Offences Act 2017, would ...

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Tasmania Looks To Increasing Penalties For Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes /news/national-news/tasmania/tasmania-looks-to-increasing-penalties-for-anti-lgbt-hate-crimes/225820 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:05:13 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=225820 Tasmania is set to relook at the state’s hate crime laws and review if tougher penalties are warranted for crimes motivated by hate, including anti-LGBTQI hate.聽 In 2017, Tasmania added ...

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Tasmania Officially Recognises聽 Asexual, Aromantic And Agender Persons /news/national-news/tasmania-officially-recognises-asexual-aromantic-and-agender-persons/225003 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 06:54:57 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=225003 LGBTQI advocates have hailed the Tasmanian government’s historic move to recognise聽 Asexual, Aromantic, and Agender persons.聽 The Tasmanian Government officially expanded the acronym LGBTIQA+ to include the letter “A,” to ...

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LGBT Tasmainans Oppose Anti-Trans Billboard /news/national-news/lgbt-tasmainans-oppose-anti-trans-billboard/224679 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:06:37 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=224679 Hobart’s northern suburbs witnessed a display of solidarity as forty individuals gathered amidst wet, cold, and windy weather to protest against an anti-transgender message displayed on a billboard. The billboard, ...

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LGB Tasmania Puts Up Anti-Trans Billboard In Hobart /news/national-news/lgb-tasmania-puts-up-anti-trans-billboard-in-hobart/224314 /news/national-news/lgb-tasmania-puts-up-anti-trans-billboard-in-hobart/224314#comments Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:00:16 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=224314 Anti-trans group LGB Tasmania has put up a billboard in Glenorchy, a northern suburb of Hobart, that LGBTQI advocacy groups have termed the ‘antithesis of Pride Month’.聽Equality Tasmania slammed the ...

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Tasmania’s Law To Ban ‘Conversion Therapy’ Could Exclude Religious Prayers /news/national-news/tasmanias-law-to-ban-conversion-therapy-could-exclude-religious-prayers/224270 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:00:07 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=224270 Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff‘s聽remarks regarding the inclusion of provisions to protect “freedom of speech” and “prayer” in the upcoming legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy have sparked apprehension among LGBTQI ...

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Tasmania 今日吃瓜paper Editor Sacked Over Fake Anti-Trans Letter /news/national-news/tasmania-newspaper-editor-sacked-over-fake-anti-trans-letter/222589 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:49:33 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=222589 Launceston’s leading newspaper The Examiner sacked its editor Mark Westfield over the publication of a fake anti-trans letter.聽 Westfield was appointed editor in January 2023. He was previously campaign manager ...

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Tasmanian 今日吃瓜paper Publishes Fake Letter About Trans Person Entering Female Change Room /news/national-news/tasmanian-newspaper-publishes-fake-letter-about-trans-person-entering-female-change-room/222514 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:59:31 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=222514 A Tasmanian newspaper has published a transphobic letter that falsely claimed a “man” undressed in front of children in the female change rooms at the Launceston Leisure and Aquatic Centre.聽 ...

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Hobart Councillor Proposes Segregated Toilet Facilities For Trans Persons /news/national-news/hobart-councillor-proposes-segregated-toilet-facilities-for-trans-persons/221469 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 05:54:02 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=221469 Hobart councillor and former mayoral candidate Louise Elliot on Monday introduced a motion to have segregated toilet facilities for trans persons and to exclude them from change rooms聽that correspond to ...

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Aussie Mums Defend Drag Story Time /news/national-news/aussie-mums-defend-drag-story-time/221455 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:10:20 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=221455 Ahead of Drag Story Time at the Launceston Library on Wednesday, some Australian parents have come out to support the event that had been targeted by the Australian Christian Lobby.聽 ...

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Christian Lobby, Tasmania’s Deputy Premier Target Drag Storytime Event At Launceston Library /news/christian-lobby-tasmanias-deputy-premier-target-drag-storytime-event-at-launceston/221125 /news/christian-lobby-tasmanias-deputy-premier-target-drag-storytime-event-at-launceston/221125#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:02:41 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=221125 Calls from the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) to cancel the sold-out Drag Storytime at Launceston Library have failed. Judy鈥檚 Tasmania founder Pussay Poppins/ Miss Poppins is all set to read ...

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