NSW upper house debates ‘heterosexual discrimination’ bill

“I was definitely called a keeper more than once, and no one gave me a rainbow or any other kind of lanyard to indicate my gender when I entered the place – but that’s probably because I often wore my unique Liberal Party lanyard; you can always go somewhere with pearls.”

Carter ultimately opposed Banasiak’s bill because it would have added more “divisive lines” to an already obviously divisive anti-discrimination bill. She even quoted Martin Luther King Jr., saying that only love can drive out hate.

It’s an odd contribution, but it’s not what the Bills deserve.

Off-site activities

Wednesday night’s State Origin opener may be over, as Joseph Suari Seven minutes into the game, he committed a random act of violence. But off the pitch, there was a lot of behavior that caught our attention.

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One of them is the state’s secretary of natural resources. Courtney Hawthorne Watch the coin toss with Ampol’s government relations manager (and former Labour staffer) Madeline Tracy McLean. There is nothing more gratifying than seeing ministers and industry lobbyists socializing publicly and leaving a permanent record on LinkedIn afterwards.

But we’re equally curious about the return of the troubled Fox Sports host Paul Kent, He was found not guilty a few months later after being charged with domestic violence following a street fight outside Totti’s restaurant in Rozelle.

Kenti was seen hanging out with the Queensland Rugby League boss Ben Eakin, Even in the Maroons shed after the game. You just knew he would be back.

A state of indifference

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Caught up in the excitement of the Interstate Origin game on Wednesday morning but didn’t make it to the Accor Stadium to watch the Blues collapse.

Instead, after Parliament ended, the Prime Minister boarded a Toto One flight to Adelaide to deliver an evening speech at the Australian Council of Trade Unions meeting.

We heard rumors that Albanese’s deputy Richard Mars He was supposed to fly business class to Adelaide to live in the ghetto, but was spotted at the Eastlakes Football Club in Canberra with a few Victorian faction comrades. Sam Ray, Karina Garlandand Michelle Ananda-Raja, With the Australian Electoral Commission proposing to scrap Higgins’s electorate, her future seems uncertain. Everyone seems to be doing everything they can to avoid this charade.

We’ll be interested to see if Victorians maintain this apathy when the Origin II arrives in Melbourne next month.

Rights protection struggle

The venting habit of Amnesty International’s local members has brought years of entertainment to the CBD. But after last year’s annual conference degenerated into a nine-hour extravaganza, they are not taking any chances this year.

Last Saturday’s annual conference lasted just a few hours as all speeches were cancelled after a minute. Last year’s chaos makers, anti-CCP activists and Wimbledon final expellees Drew Pavlo, He had harshly criticized the organization’s controversial reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, later retracted his threat to run in board elections and quit the organization at the last minute.

It was not a good day for Pavlo. The motions he supported, including one that explicitly condemned Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and one that called on Amnesty International to retract its controversial Ukraine report (which had delighted the Kremlin’s propagandists), were both overwhelmingly defeated.

The board election was uneventful. Ajoy Ghosh and Anne Wright All were elected. But Sophia Tsai, Supported by a versatile former Labour MP Belinda Neal, Neil, whose “Iguana Joe Night” incident has now become a topic of civil politics, did not. Neil was awarded a three-year term on the board last year after four previous failed attempts. So there is hope for the equally tenacious Pavlo, who is said to be considering joining the board after completing his college exams.