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A Muslim group awarded charity status in the recent budget has warned senators of the legal risk of condemning the anti-Israel “river to the sea” chant and claims Labor has abandoned its own senator, Fatima Payman, over her allegations of genocide in Gaza.

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has apologised to UK activist Kellie-Jay Keen and Melbourne-based gender-critical feminist Angela Jones for “any hurt, distress or harm that has occurred” as a result of his comments being “misunderstood as conveying” that he believed them to be neo-Nazis.

Almost 800 Sydney University students have voted for their student body to support “one Palestinian state” and affirmed “the right of Palestinians to armed resistance” at a rare student general meeting, as the university seeks police advice on the legality of material used to promote the event.

Leaders of the Christian, Muslim and Jewish religions in Queensland have united to condemn the Miles government’s draft anti-discrimination laws restricting their schools from hiring and firing staff based on their faith, sexuality, marital status and gender identity.

The number of school students identifying as neither male nor female is now 20 times higher than before the pandemic. Non-binary enrolments account for barely 0.05% of the nation’s four million school students, but create a legal and ethical minefield for principals and teachers.

Foreign students are being forced into sexual slavery as people-smugglers target tertiary education, Australia’s anti-slavery commissioner has warned. Cases of forced marriage, ­bonded labour, death threats and blackmail against international students have been referred to police.

Multiculturalism is at a “crossroads”, with greater leadership needed to “break the cycle of hate” and “teach a new generation of Australians to rise above entrenched beliefs”, two leaders of the government’s multicultural policy review have warned.

Religious leaders and the Coalition are urging Anthony Albanese to ignore a report it commissioned into reducing discrimination at faith-based schools, claiming the lead author has contradicted its findings by calling for stronger legal protections for religious institutions.

For the past ten years, the Australian Prayer Network (APN) has been holding Watchmen Schools of Intercession all over the nation, with over 16,000 people having attended the Foundation Level course.

The Indigenous women of Borroloola are asking the Albanese government to acknowledge their success and help other communities do as they have done for their youngest children.

Anthony Albanese is being urged to replicate a landmark British review into interventionist medical treatments that enable young children to change gender, amid increasing concern that puberty blockers may cause serious harm.

NSW Police have confirmed that a Friday sermon by Bankstown-based cleric Abu Ousayd – also known as Wissam Haddad – that promised “humiliation” and “men who love death” if Allah was attacked, did not breach state hate-speech provisions.

One of Australia’s most senior Catholic leaders has called on the Albanese government to reject law reform proposals to remove protections for religious institutions from the Sex Discrimination Act because they are “a most serious threat to the existence” of religious schools.

A Sydney council’s controversial library ban on a children’s book about same-sex parents was overturned after hours of fiery debate. Councillors voted for a motion to reinstate the book into its library collections, but to move it from the children’s section to the junior non-fiction section.

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Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital is offering ‘gender-affirming care’ for children as young as three in a move described by one Liberal Senator as ‘incredibly concerning’.

Australia is facing a shortfall of 16,000 nurses and 25,000 allied health workers in the aged care sector by 2033, new research reveals, as workforce shortages force a further 16 residential aged care facilities to close.

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is on the brink of implementing the most permissive euthanasia laws in the country, perpetuating a concerning culture of death.

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ACT Human Rights Minister Tara Cheyne said that the government was considering allowing children as young as 14 to access voluntary assisted dying.