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Editor at OUTinPerth, he/him, living in Boorloo, Noongar land.

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@scepticalf94596 @star_observer click on the link and you'll find 388 more words, welcome to how the internet works.

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@RetroNewsNow Years ago, I chatted to Nana Visitor about this show! I remember watching it Australia late at night in the early 90s.

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@Christie_Whelan She did make a second album, let’s hope for a third.

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@newscomauHQ Cory Bernardi is not running for a seat in the lower house. #facts

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@clairlemon @abcnews It does not say that at all - it’s says they’ve been investigating the issue for two years.

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@mushycrouton @roisinmurphy Garbage had a song called Queer, there was the New Queer Cinema movement, and Queer As Folk and if you watch Truth or Dare people are walking down the street chanting ‘We’re Here We’re Queer’ - just four cultural reference off the top of my head 🙂

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@jeff_kennett Jeff Jeff Jeff

How many family’s in WA have Dads working FIFO in mines? Are they all not caring about their families?

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@newmrpford @lyttle_deb9361 We should expect more, so much more from our elected representatives.

Pretty sure if I ran content anywhere close to this I’d have a full time job dealing with press council complaints

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@westaustralian I think everyone could have predicted this, Templeman had a strong involvement in amateur theatre before his career, as Arts Minister he spoke often about his love of all art forms and he used to sing n Parliament.

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A new report published in The Medical Journal of Australia argues that the UK’s Cass Review should not used as a guide for the care of young transgender people and argues that the review is deeply flawed.

https://t.co/hAEgmKsCth

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King Princess chats to OUTinPerth about new album 'Girl Violence', songwriting, acting and tabloid rumours.

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The senator for free speech and open debate

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@newscomauHQ Can you explain why this is “shocking” news? Liam Hemsworth is engaged, happy news, surely.

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🚨 Girls, women & free speech trampled again 🚨

Kirralie Smith has just been found guilty of “vilification” for saying the obvious truth: men don’t belong in women’s sport.

Under these unjust laws, she and Binary could be slugged with $200,000 in damages, forced to apologise, and even undergo re-education to pretend men can be women.

Family First’s Lyle Shelton says:

“These are unjust decisions based on unjust laws. The law must be changed to protect girls and women’s sports and freedom of speech.”

This is not justice. It’s compelled speech and an attack on every Australian’s right to defend women and girls.

💬 Do you agree it’s time to scrap these anti-free speech laws?

👉 Family First is standing candidates in NSW, Victoria and SA to fight back.

#FreeSpeech #WomensRights #FamilyFirst #IStandWithKirralieSmith #NSWpol #Auspol

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Vilification finding against Kirralie Smith unjust, says Family First

In a further blow for girls and women’s rights and for freedom of speech, Kirralie Smith has been found guilty of vilifying two biological males playing soccer in women’s competitions.

“These are unjust decisions based on unjust laws. The law must be changed to protect girls and women’s sports and freedom of speech,” Family First National Director and lead candidate for the NSW Upper House, Lyle Shelton said.

In two judgements handed down yesterday by deputy chief magistrate Sharon Freund in the NSW Local Court, Smith, who is spokeswoman for the girls’ and women’s rights advocacy group Binary, was found to have vilified biological males Stephanie Blanch and Riley Dennis under the Anti Discrimination Act.

Blanch also successfully sued Binary, of which Shelton is a director.

Smith and Binary could face up to $100,000 in damages for vilifying Blanch and Smith could face a further $100,000 for vilifying Dennis.

Smith and Binary could be forced to publicly apologise for “misgendering” the biological males and be forced to undertake re-education to teach them that men can be women.

Freund was at pains in her judgements to say she was not deciding whether biological males, or transgender “women” as she describes them, should be allowed to play in girls’ and women’s sports.

But in finding against Smith and Binary, she has judged that the law prohibits free argument about the issue.

Freund found that Smith’s social media posts pointing out that Dennis was the top goal scorer in a women’s competition was vilification in breach of the law.

She also found that Smith’s social media “misgendering” Blanch and calling him a “bloke in a frock” was vilification.

In her finding against Binary, Freund said a January newsletter from the group referring to Blanch as a “bloke in a frock” “had the capacity to encourage or spur others to harbour emotions of hatred towards, severe contempt for and severe ridicule of the Plaintiff, on the grounds that the Plaintiff is transgender”.

Shelton said anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws in NSW and the almost identical laws in all other states and territories were deeply flawed.

“No one should be able to sue their fellow Australian on the basis of hurt feelings.

“Australians should be free to engage in debate, even robustly. The limits to free speech should be at incitement to violence, not to protect the political positions of those engaged in identity politics by shutting down discussion.

“Sadly, Liberal and Labor politicians allow the law to be used vexatiously by anti-free speech activists.

“While these laws are often referred to as ‘hate speech laws’ they are in effect used to silence speech activists hate.”

Shelton said the findings against Smith and Binary only made Family First more determined to contest elections so parliamentarians committed to freedom of speech could be elected to fight for these unjust laws to be repealed.

Family First is fielding candidates in the up-coming South Australian, Victorian and NSW elections and has a reasonable prospect of picking up an Upper House seat in each.

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@jermainetd93 @grok I'm hoping you get a more exciting result than I did, - no shade @BasilZempilas

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Hey, @grok, who is the most famous person to ever visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was. Thank you!

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@SabraLane @jeremyrockliff @DeanWinterMP Of course not, you ask hard questions 😆

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@CaroDiRusso Isn’t it at the Royal Show every year?

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Soulsides at rtrfm 92.1

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Caught in the crossfire? More like they fired at a reporter

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U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in the heart of Los Angeles. #9News

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