Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 17 May 2013 | Issue 1175 | starobserver.
com.
au
We need reform, not rainbows
National
Benn Dorrington
What’s more important: marriage equality,
legal protection from discrimination or a
rainbow flag?
Some...
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Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 17 May 2013 | Issue 1175 | starobserver.
com.
au
We need reform, not rainbows
National
Benn Dorrington
What’s more important: marriage equality,
legal protection from discrimination or a
rainbow flag?
Some of Australia’s leading LGBTI rights
advocates, including former High Court
justice Michael Kirby and pioneering
academic Dennis Altman, are concerned
about the direction of the country’s queer
rights movement.
Issues such as Sydney’s recently removed
rainbow crossing have become lightning
rods for activists while actual attempts at
reform such as the Sex Discrimination
Amendment (SDA) bill, which will give
LGBTI people protection from most
discrimination at a national level for the
first time, have received little community
attention.
Community leaders were asked if we had
our priorities right considering just nine
individuals wrote in support of the SDA bill
while hundreds of people chalked Sydney’s
footpaths on Monday night in s
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