Diversity ACT is an LGBTIQ+ non-profit community service. We exist to support the aspirations & human dignity of LGBTIQ+ Canberrans.
Canberra, Australia
Joined August 2012
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Almost two-thirds of LGBTQ people avoid seeing a GP because they are not confident they will understand their life and health needs. Today’s $26 mn research commitment from
@gedkearney and @Mark_Butler_MP is a critical breakthrough medianet.com.au/news-hub-pos…
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A week ago we made a submission to the UN Committee against Torture. It compiles current evidence on harmful medical practices in Australia and recent developments. Australia will appear before the Committee later this year.
ihra.org.au/40056/submission…
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The 2021 Volunteer Manager of the Year Highly Commended was awarded to Megan Watts. President, and Volunteer Manager for Diversity ACT. Among many other activities, Megan actively mentors young people in the youth group, Queer Youth Together. Congratulations Megan!
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Interested to know the situation in Australia. Oops, we forgot. There's NO hate crime law in any Australian jurisdiction. – at Melbourne, Victoria
Hate crimes against people of Asian descent rose by 76% in 2020, according to newly republished data by the FBI. abcn.ws/3CiETA3
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Two months into overwhelming crisis brought on by reckless decision of NSW govt to force NSW to “live with Covid”: 36+ dead. 6491 cases and rising. No elective surgery. Schools disrupted. Financial support inadequate. Businesses smashed. Borders shut. Change needed urgently.
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Surely it’s time for the Australian government to convert all Temporary Protection Visas for Afghan refugees to permanent residence and release all Afghan people in detention, onshore and offshore. #KabulHasFallen
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Common mythology has it that the Gettysburg Address was largely written by Abraham Lincoln in a train on his way to commemorate the Gettysburg battlefield.
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F*ck me but #PetaCredlin is a partisan piece of shit. She did all in her power to tear Dan Andrews down, to undermine his, and the efforts of every Victorian during last year's lockdown.
But apparently the grossly negligent and incompetent @GladysB needs our support.
#auspol
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My four year old daughter told me today that one of the kids at daycare told her she wasn’t invited to their party because she was brown.
She asked me why she has brown skin.
I was not remotely ready for this conversation.
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So, the PM is doing the ‘media rounds’ this morning, popping up on Sunrise and Today. He decided against accepting our invitation to beam into @BreakfastNews from The Lodge during his quarantine (the bid made with the PMO just this week).We’ll keep asking on your behalf. #auspol
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Friend got a call from NSW Health that he is a close contact. Told to get tested asap and isolate. Doesn't own car. Rode bike to closest drive in testing. Was refused test because not in car. Was told to hire an Uber or cab & come back 😳 #GoldStandard #GladysOutbreak
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For the third time, I just tried to refer my Porter Commission of Inquiry bill to inquiry, and again Gov, PHON & Jacqui blocked it. Tomorrow on the anniversary of Kate’s death I’ll try *again* to progress the bill, no doubt with the same ppl blocking it. #justiceforkate #auspol
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A year ago I debated paediatric surgeons and a bioethicist from the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. It’s one of the clearest and quickest ways to understand how medicine treats intersex people here, today, in Australia.
ihra.org.au/36471/intersexio…
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So have I got this right? While many journos have spent a year telling news audiences the Victorian government have failed to protect the public from Covid-19, none of them cared to notice that flight crew could be transported by un-masked, un-vaccinated people in NSW. Oh dear.
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Shameful. “Department of Home Affairs data obtained by SBS News has revealed more than a thousand travel exemption requests by refugees stuck overseas have been rejected since August last year.” sbs.com.au/news/thousands-of…
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OMG. Tudge speaking of Judeo/ Christian values. Our great history from Britain. How our history shouldn’t be “negative”. Yep a change to the curriculum. Just what the Trump followers wanted. To cut out the slavery history. So guess the LNP is speaking about aboriginal massacres.