Petition the Parliament - on any issue that you care about.
Support six month's paid maternity leave. Sign the online petition.
Join the GetUp! climate change torch relay
Show off your design skills and have the chance to win $500 by designing a homepage for the 2009 NSW Youth Week website
Nominations are now open for HREOC's 2008 Human Rights Medals and Awards.
Take Action
See Red
"The school formal is meant to be a formal dance between a young man and a young woman, not a young man and a young man,"
"We love all our [gay] students as we do all people in our churches but their lifestyle is not encouraged, particularly if it was a promiscuous lifestyle. We are dealing with young people here.
- Dr Laurie Scandrett, Chief Exeuctive of the Sydney Anglican School Corporation says no to marriage and to dancing for same sex couples
Contact Penny
The Hon Penny Sharpe MLC
Australian Labor Party
Parliament House
Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: 02 9230 2741
Fax: 02 9230 2589
Email Penny Sharpe
Search
Links
Get Updates
- Sign up for the E-Brief
- News feed (RSS 2.0)
- News Feed (Atom 1.0)
Navigation
GLBT reform continues in NSW
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Tue, 22/04/2008 - 4:46pm.
The Attorney General, John Hatzistergos today announced that the Labor Government will introduce laws that give parental recognition to lesbians who have kids together. The government will also move on an additional 50 laws to extend equal rights to same sex defacto couples.
This is important reform that gives children of lesbian parents equal rights in workers compensation and victim compensation payments, inheritance rights, recognition of both parents by schools and health authorities.
The reforms pick up on all the issues raised by the important GLRL publication and Then The Brides Changed Nappies... and mean that the law will now recognise the reality for many kids in NSW.
That's really awesome. A
That's really awesome. A welcome development, awesome.