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Federal Election 2025

This is where you will find news about the upcoming federal election and useful resources for voting.

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Analysis: Labor has been given a clear mandate to govern. Now it must deliver on its promises.
Analysis: Labor has been given a clear mandate to govern. Now it must deliver on its promises.

As the dust begins to settle on the federal election and we all breathe a sigh of relief over having avoided a Dutton Coalition Government, it’s time to consider what the election result actually means for us as queer and/or disabled folk and what we can expect over the next three years.

Disability advocate causes biggest upset of the election
Disability advocate causes biggest upset of the election

Disability advocate and former world champion para-athlete, Ali France, has caused the biggest upset of the Australian federal election, winning the Brisbane seat of Dickson from the now former Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton.

Voting with a disability can be a challenge
Voting with a disability can be a challenge

Voting is a democratic right for all Australians, but for some people with disabilities, it can be an uncomfortable and sometimes distressing experience.

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UK tumbles in latest ranking on LGBTQIA+ rights in Europe
UK tumbles in latest ranking on LGBTQIA+ rights in Europe

Thinking of a European holiday? ILGA has just released it’s 2025 edition of the Rainbow Map, which ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTQIA+ people.

Social media giants failing LGBTQIA+ users
Social media giants failing LGBTQIA+ users

The latest Social Media Safety Index report from American LGBTQIA+ media advocacy organisation GLAAD has found that the six leading social media platforms - TikTok, YouTube, X, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Threads - are all failing dismally when it comes to providing basic protections for the safety of their queer users.

Queer & disabled Territorians face rollback of anti-discrimination protections
Queer & disabled Territorians face rollback of anti-discrimination protections

Under proposed changes to the Northern Territory’s Anti-Discrimination Act (1992), the Country Liberal Party intends to scrap a key provision of the Act that provides legal protection to LGBTQIA+ and disabled people, along with other marginalised communities, from vilification and hate speech.

Latest Blogs

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The challenges of finding & maintaining employment when you’re autistic
The challenges of finding & maintaining employment when you’re autistic

It’s no secret that many of us with autism struggle to hold down a job, if we can even get one to begin with. It would seem that, at almost every step of the way, we are set up to fail. This blog explores the challenges that we as autistic people face when it comes to securing employment and the struggle to keep a job when we finally do get one.

A Brief Introduction
A Brief Introduction

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