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Welcome to the very last Rainbow Report. Don’t worry, this is not going to be one of those self-indulgent, let’s look back etc etc shows: just the last helping of...
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This will be the penultimate Rainbow Report, counting down to the final show on October 3. Tonight, some bold new beginnings, and one sad goodbye. Shelley Argent has been leading...
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Well now that we’ve all picked ourselves up off the canvas it’s time to put our shoulders to the wheel and leaving no cliché unturned accept with good grace that...
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Well, it happened. Kevin Rudd is consigned to history, unless he’s going to sit on the back benches stirring a cauldron and muttering “three time is the charm”, in which...
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This week I’m looking at MORE of those ‘should be an election issue but isn’t’ issues – this week, permissible discrimination, AIDS prevention, LGBTI age care, and gay refugees, as...
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This week I’m looking at one of those ‘should be an issue but isn’t’ issues: gay conversion therapy – is it dead; the responses of the three major parties to other...
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The post Rainbow Report Election: Overlooked Issues plus Melbourne Ports Candidates appeared first on Rainbow Report.
The show was supposed to be all about the outer suburban electorate of Dunkley, which takes in the fleshpot of Frankston as well as more upmarket areas such as Mount...
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The post Rainbow Report (partly) on Dunkley: A Coalition Marginal appeared first on Rainbow Report.
Next week we’ll be heading out to Dunkeley, one of the most marginal seats in this election, to talk to the candidates there. This week we’re looking at the safest...
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Are you feeling this election is one big yawn. All this pompous talk about the most important election for a generation etc etc sending you to sleep? So far I...
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In case you hadn’t noticed – and it seems most people haven’t, or don’t care – Vladimir Putin’s Russian government has turned on its gay community with a vengeance. Life...
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Blink and you’d miss it – the mainstream media did – but this week Foreign Minister Bob Carr said that gay rights were a ‘core foreign policy issue’ for the...
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The CEO of YMCA said “Today gay men are under enormous pressure about their bodies, and we believe that a lack of body diversity in the media, including the gay...
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And first, a warning. Some listeners might find this topic confronting. If you are a survivor of sexual abuse, you may not want to read further, or listen to the...
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Kind of appropriate in a week when the actor who plays one of the most pansexual characters ever [John Barrowman: Captain Jack Harkness. Dr Who & Torchwood] took advantage of...
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The post Rainbow Report on Escape: Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Gayming appeared first on Rainbow Report.
You see it on Grindr profiles all the time: No rice, no curry. Is it sexual racism, or just sexual preference? Jesse Matheson was the man who caused a storm,...
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The post Rainbow Report on Rice & Curry: Sexual Racism In The LGBTI World appeared first on Rainbow Report.
My studio guests and I will be looking at the experience of transgender folk in the AFL , in particular the story of Kirsti Miller, the NSW transgender AFL player....
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Yup, you heard me. Why don’t we forget marriage – some things are more important. Or so lots of gay people think. Like the ongoing discrimination impacting our kids, leading...
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The government has two pieces of unfinished business for the LGBTI community, and with little time left before Parliament rises, it’s not certain they will make it to the statute...
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What exactly are hate crimes? Do we need special laws to deal with hate crime, and why? Surely the crime is the same regardless of the motive, so why should...
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Politics used to be pretty simple: you decided which broadly-based party you could live with, and signed on for their whole suite of policies, including those you didn’t agree with....
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Tonight’s show is all about being smart. As we’ve said on this program several times: it’s smart to conserve our history, because in the past we’ve so often been written...
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Last week the Labour candidate for Melbourne was in the studio, so this week it’s the turn of sitting Greens member, Adam Bandt. He joins us for the first half...
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My studio guests and I look at the painful and difficult issues that arise when, as a headline in The Age put it recently, “faith and sexuality collide.” A collision...
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A mixed bag this Thursday, with news good and bad, a call for your help. Following their successful ‘left-handed’ campaign, beyondblue along with MINDOut! are looking into the best way...
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This week Doug talks to Liberal Chief Whip in the upper house, Senator Helen Kroger, about the risks to LGBTI, HIV+, Jews, Christians, people on anxiety and other meds, and
The post Risks: Dubai, New York, LGBTI Ageing, NSW Police appeared first on Rainbow Report.
On this edition of The Rainbow Report host Doug Pollard and guest co-host Rod Swift attempt to untangle GLBTI issues with the help of archivist and historian Graham Willet and...
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On this edition of The Rainbow Report join host Doug Pollard and co-host James Newburrie as they take a look at dambreaks. To help them cover this issue they’re joined...
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On this edition of The Rainbow Report, Doug Pollard and guest host Rob Mitchell take a closer look at surprises within the GLBTI community. To help they’re joined by MQFF...
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Doug talks to Greens leader Christine Milne about her decision to march with PFLAG in Mardi Gras: plus new PFLAGBrisbane President Donna Goddard, NSW MP Alex Greenwich, and Greg Adkins...
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