Leading medical specialist Professor Caroline de Costa will return her 2014 Australia Day award in protest at the decision this year to give the country’s highest honour to tennis champion M... Read more
This week marks exactly one year since Australians voted yes for marriage equality, following a divisive and damaging campaign for the LGBTQI community. Contrary to the predictions of right-... Read more
I don’t remember a time when my life wasn’t a political football or a proxy for someone else’s culture wars. I came of age in an era where John Howard railed on the evening news about childr... Read more
Participants in a major Indigenous health research symposium in Brisbane today burst into spontaneous applause when news broke of the public’s support for marriage equality. The import... Read more
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has belatedly thrown its weight behind marriage equality, reversing a previous position that it would remain “neutral” on the ma... Read more
Ruth Armstrong writes: As Australia Post begins the mail-out of same-sex marriage voting forms, there are reports today that the parliament will, later this week, move to approve measures to... Read more
**THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED TO UPDATE FUNDRAISING PROGRESS** With the High Court of Australia clearing the way for the Marriage Equality Postal Survey to go ahead, we can expect divisive cam... Read more
There’s no doubt that the current debate on marriage equality is giving an unwelcome platform to those with mis-informed, bigoted, harmful (and sometimes just plain crazy) views on sex, gend... Read more
Over the past few years, Croakey has published many articles about the health issues surrounding marriage equality (an example) and the damaging impacts of a plebiscite. In one of these arti... Read more
Dozens of health organisations came together Friday in an unprecedented coalition of support for marriage equality in Australia, urging the Parliament to legislate on the issue in the intere... Read more
