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How the Queen Found the Perfect Cup of Tea, Saga, Teacher for Justice, Celebrating Difference

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Religious Freedom Bill to take away rights of others

At the end of last year, while bushfires roared across NSW and smoke blanketed Sydney, the Prime Minister released the second draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill. At the time, Scott Morrison was accused of using the haze of bushfires to release a flawed and damaging Bill.

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Rainbow connections in Parramatta

Parramatta Foreshore was recently filled with rainbows and fun at the 13th annual Parramatta Pride Picnic where locals celebrated LGBTIQ diversity.

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Member presence at Pride events telegraphs support to LGBTIQ people

​The Kempsey community sent a strong message of acceptance and celebration of diversity for LGBTIQ people recently by joining in the It’s OK on the Macleay event.

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Bi+ Visibility Day

Bisexuality Day, also known as Bi+ Visibility or Bi Pride Day, is celebrated on 23 September, and aims to provide bisexual people with recognition and to celebrate bisexual history, community and culture.

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Be inclusive every day

any schools, workplaces and organisations recently celebrated Wear It Purple Day in order to demonstrate their support for LGBTIQ or rainbow young people.

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Teachers signal their support for an inclusive society

Members have been volunteering to work on Federation stalls at several local LGBTIQ-related celebrations, including Newcastle Pride’s recent Fair Day.

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Wear It Purple Day 2019

Federation joined with more than 750 schools, universities, community organisations and workplaces to celebrate Wear It Purple Day, and to show young rainbow people that they have respect, acceptance and support.

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Wear it Purple Day: empowering together

​Wear it Purple Day will be held on Friday 30 August with the theme – Stand Up. Stand Out

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A statement in support of our LGBTIQA+ students and colleagues

​We are a union that champions equality because, as teachers, we want our children to grow up in a world that accepts all and celebrates diversity. After all, it is what we should practise, model and teach every day in our public schools.

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A matter of pride

June is Pride Month, an international celebration of the LGBTIQA+ community. Originally beginning in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York – a tipping point in the gay liberation movement in the US

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IDAHOBIT Day provides an opportunity to promote justice and protection for all

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT Day) is an internationally recognised day of significance that aims to draw attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBTIQ people.

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Book Reviews

​Ruby in the Ruins, Peter in Peril, The Fear and the Freedom, George

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Association LGBTIQ contact

Every year Associations elect members into a range of positions to ensure the smooth running of the local Association, and to share information on specific matters in which the Federation is involved.

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Federation shows its colours at Mardi Gras

​An estimated 500,000 spectators lined the footpaths, rooftops and balconies of Oxford Street to cheer on more than 12,500 marchers celebrating Sydney’s LGBTIQ communities on Saturday, 2 March.

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Fair Day

Federation celebrated the start of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras with its stand at Fair Day. The union hosted a stall at the event to communicate our support of LGBTIQ communities and celebrate our LGBTIQ members.

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Federation at Mardi Gras

Federation is excited to be a part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, to celebrate the diversity of our members as well as the students and families that make up our public schools.

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Federation prepares for Mardi Gras

Federation members came together for the first of several Mardi Gras workshops to create the outfits to be worn by members participating in the parade on Saturday 2 March 2019.

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First inclusion and diversity survey launched

Federation encourages members to complete the first ever Survey for Teaching Personnel on Inclusion and Diversity, which is being jointly coordinated by Education International (EI) Asia-Pacific Region and UNESCO Bangkok for members of EI-affiliated unions in the Asia-Pacific.

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Intersex Day of Solidarity

Intersex Day of Solidarity, also known as Intersex Day of Remembrance, took place on 8 November. The day marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by the philosopher Michel Foucault, along with contemporary texts and a later fictionalised account.

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World AIDS Day 2018

Saturday, 1 December, marks the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day, with the theme, “Know Your Status”. More than 120 countries around the world hold events to raise awareness of preventative measures, testing and treatments and also to remember those who have lost their lives to, and support those who are living with, the HIV/AIDS virus.

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