These pages present public submissions, events and other materials relevant to New South Wales. Please also review our policy briefings.
This statement follows press reports suggesting that the NSW Finance Minister will introduce a proposed amendment to a bill decriminalising abortion in the Legislative Council to prohibit terminations on grounds of sex or intersex traits.
Our societies have accepted a binary construct between male and female which does not reflect Nature and the enormous variety of possible sexes which overlap one another in various gradations on a spectrum.
A recording of a 2019 lecture by co-executive director Morgan Carpenter at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, on “medical and legal contradictions on the meaning and needs of intersex people”.
IHRA and AISSGA have collaborated on this NSW election issues paper, distributed to parties to the NSW Parliamentary Friendship Group for LGBTIQ People at the end of January.
Queer Screen and IHRA are delighted to invite you to attend the world premiere of the first narrative movie created and starring an openly intersex person, River Gallo.
This speech was given in a panel presentation at the National LGBTI Health Alliance conference, Health in Difference, in Sydney, 12 April 2018.
“From pink triangles to social acceptance?”, a lecture organised by Sydney Health Ethics and ACON, with Dr Astrid Ley (Sachsenhausen), Justice Michael Kirby, Prof Jenni Millbank, and Morgan Carpenter.
This year’s Mardi Gras Parade will see the participation of the largest number of people born with intersex bodies ever in a public event in Australia.
This is a statement by board member Candice Cody at a screening of Arianna, as part of the Sydney Queer Film Festival, 2017.
On 22 February 2017, co-executive director Morgan Carpenter spoke at an Australian Human Rights Commission RightsTalk, on “Creating Equality – The Role of Law in Protecting SOGII Rights”.
On 26 October, Intersex Awareness Day, co-chair Morgan Carpenter gave a talk at UTS entitled “Intersex, thinking outside the box: intersex, identity, harmful practices and 20 years of activism.”
On 23 August, UTS Law Students’ Society will hold an event on LGBTI rights, with speakers including Dr David Bennett QC (keynote), Geoff Holland (UTS law), Hilary Kincaid (Inner City Legal Centre), Ruth Nocka (Corrs Chambers Westgarth) and Morgan Carpenter (OIIAU).