Under the cover of night, NSW Labor, the Greens and independent Alex Greenwich teamed up to pass the controversial ‘Conversion Practices Ban Bill’ in NSW. They rammed it through while you and I were sleeping, while many parliamentarians had gone
Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital is offering ‘gender affirming care’ for children as young as three in a move described by one Liberal Senator as ‘incredibly concerning’. Psychiatrists and specialist gender identity clinicians will work alongside children aged three to 17
The Minns Government said the bill would “save lives” and outlaw conversion practices such as religious “straight camps” or hypnotherapy sessions designed to change a person’s sexual orientation or identity. The bill was introduced this past week after it was
Toddlers and preschoolers in some childcare centres are being taught that Australia was stolen from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in ceremonies branded as “indoctrination’’. More than 7000 schools and daycare centres have a formal “acknowledgement of country’’ in
Former chief scientist Ian Chubb has called for dementia sufferers to be allowed access to voluntary assisted dying through a legal framework permitting seriously ill Australians to leave advanced directives outlining when they wish to end their life. Professor Chubb
The peak psychiatry college has become the first medical body in the country to acknowledge shifting international evidence on transgender healthcare and puberty blockers in a major position statement challenging the approach of children’s hospitals. The Royal Australian and New
A cleric’s sermon at a southwest Sydney Islamic centre – the subject of two recently dropped investigations – has called for the establishment of a Muslim army to defend Islam and fight against the West. “This (the Israel-Palestine conflict) has
This dinner was held in Sydney on February 17th to give thanks and to honour Pioneers of Prayer in Australia. On the night, awards were given to Barbara Bell, Matthew & Kathy Bolte, Tim & Di Edwards, Ben & Liz
Northern Territory (NT) Labor is surveying whether there is public support for allowing people to access euthanasia because they are suffering from a mental illness, prompting concerns the government was considering offering vulnerable patients “death instead of the support they
Youth justice laws need to stop treating criminal minors as “little angels” and start applying “tough love” to lawless children, the federal Labor MP representing Alice Springs has declared. In an extraordinary intervention against her own party’s handling of the
