For most teenagers, starting high school triggers mixed emotions 鈥 nervousness, excitement, a sense of adventure. Adolescence is a critical period in everyone鈥檚 life.
This is especially true for LGBTI youth. In the process of coming to terms with our sexuality and gender identity, we must also navigate the hardships that come with existing in a society that overwhelmingly neither accepts nor accommodates us.
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In a period of so-called 鈥渂udget emergency鈥 when deep funding cuts are being imposed on universities and scientific research, the federal government has managed to find $4 million for a 鈥渃onsensus centre鈥 headed by advocate for climate inaction Bj酶rn Lomborg.
The $13 million centre will form part of the University of Western Australia鈥檚 (UWA) business school, with the Commonwealth contributing $4 million over four years.
In the AFL鈥檚 nationalistic carnival, the Anzac Round, the Melbourne Demons and Richmond Tigers were lining up for their game on April 24. One of the Tigers players Bachar Houli, is one of the AFL鈥檚 鈥渕ulticultural ambassadors鈥.
He is also the first practicing Muslim to play in the AFL.
Elsewhere, Houli was being described quite differently. John Burns, radio broadcaster for Melbourne鈥檚 3AW was reported to have labelled him a 鈥渢errorist鈥. The comment was overheard at a Richmond Football Club function by a senior club staffer and subsequently reported.
Activists, students and academic staff met at the University of Sydney on April 29 to discuss the university鈥檚 recent attacks on those involved in a protest against a lecture given by an Israeli colonel on March 11.
Democracy Now! reports from the streets of Baltimore, where an overnight curfew has taken effect following Monday鈥檚 riots sparked by the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old African-American man who died of neck injuries suffered in police custody.
In California, the local chapter of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has vowed to shut down ports on May 1 in a historic protest against police brutality, Democracy Now! reported.
on the anger that has exploded in Baltimore.
A 7.9-magnitude earthquake claimed over 4100 lives and left close to 7000 injured in Nepal. Dozens of powerful aftershocks have rocked the country since Saturday. The quake is the worse in 80 years. Below we provide constant updates from a variety of sources.
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala told Reuters the death toll could reach 10,000, as information of damage from far-flung villages and towns has yet to come in.
Hone Harawira, leader of the MANA Movement of Aotearoa (New Zealand), has called on all those who support justice to join in the Day of Action to Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities on May 1, both in Australia and in New Zealand. He has released this statement.
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Last year, self-described "pick-up artist" and committed misogynist Julien Blanc arrived in Australia for a planned series of seminars on how to harass women.
Hard-hitting rapper Miss Hood comes from a long line of women warriors. Her ancestors, the Kunai and Gunditjmara people of eastern and western Victoria, put female fighters on the frontline. "Both of the tribes were matriarchal, so women were equal to men," says the Melbourne-based emcee. "It wasn't unusual to have women warriors as well as men warriors." Little wonder, then, that her music packs such a powerful feminist punch.
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