Category: Australia
Sydney has made LGBTQ+ history, with Councillor Olly Arkins becoming the City of Sydney’s first openly transgender Deputy Lord Mayor. Arkins was elected to the role by fellow councillors on 21 September, less than two years after first winning a seat on the City of Sydney Council in 2024. She was the only nominee for […]
A coalition of 100 Australian organisations is urging federal MPs to reject attempts to redefine “sex” in the Sex Discrimination Act, warning proposed changes could weaken protections for transgender and intersex people as well as women more broadly. The open letter brings together women’s organisations, LGBTQ+ groups, unions, disability organisations and mental-health advocates. Signatories include […]
A Sydney court has heard allegations that former NSW Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon disguised himself as an Uber Eats rider before allegedly murdering TV presenter Jesse Baird and Baird’s boyfriend, Luke Davies. Lamarre-Condon, 31, is standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court on two counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of aggravated break […]
The Australian Government has agreed to formally apologise to LGBTQ+ Defence personnel and veterans who were harmed by historic discrimination — but advocates say acknowledgement should also be accompanied by financial redress. The commitment was confirmed as Parliament considered military justice reforms stemming from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. For decades, gay, […]
Bisexual former AFL player Mitch Brown is swapping the footy field for a very different kind of contact sport in the new music video from Australian pop artist ANDY. Brown, who made history in 2025 as the first current or former male AFL player to come out publicly as bisexual, stars as ANDY’s love interest […]
NSW Police have defended a major drug-dog operation across Sydney’s Oxford Street nightlife precinct after LGBTQ+ patrons and community advocates described the police presence as intimidating and questioned why queer venues were again being searched. Around 15 to 20 officers were filmed entering at least one Oxford Street venue on Saturday, 12 September, accompanied by […]
South Australia’s Parliament has rejected a One Nation bill that sought to introduce prison sentences for health practitioners providing certain gender-affirming treatments to people under 18. The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia) (Childhood Gender Dysphoria) Amendment Bill, introduced by One Nation’s Cory Bernardi, was defeated 11 votes to 8 in the Legislative Council. […]
A Brisbane man has been convicted and sentenced after helping lure, rob and assault a 70-year-old man through Grindr while pretending to be 15. Cooper Roam Watt, now 20, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court to robbery in company with personal violence. He was sentenced to two years in prison with immediate parole, with […]