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The Darling 2025 Winner Announced

At InterAction's Intersex Awareness Day Online Gala on Sunday 26th October, the highlight of the evening's celebrations was the announcement of The Darling- the award given to ally individuals or organisations who have made a contribution beyond signing the Darlington Statement to progress the health and human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics in Australia. And in 2025, the award was presented to two worthy winners- Dr Thomas Drake-Brockman and Dr Jasmine Davis.
28 Oct 2025
Text reads: Winners of The Darling 2025 Photo of Dr Thomas Drake-Brockman and Dr Jasmine Davis. Dr Drake-Brockman is a young, pale skinned individual with hair pulled pack and smiling. They are wearing a white shirt, dark trousers and a blue lanyard around their neck. Dr Jasmine Davis a young pale skinned woman with long straight brown hair. She wears glasses and is smiling. She is wearing a black top and blazer, cream coloured trousers and a blue lanyard. Photo of The Darling- a pewter cube shaped award with the Darling 2025 engraved on the side.
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Sydney Intersex Awareness Day screening of "The Secret of Me"

InterAction, City of Sydney and Queer Screen co-present a special free screening of new documentary "The Secret of Me". Event Cinemas, George St, Sydney, 3pm 26 October
15 Oct 2025
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Your Guide to What’s Happening for Intersex Awareness in October 2025

Here's your guide to what's happening for Intersex Awareness in October 2025. We hope you find some events you would like to attend and enjoy the celebrations!
2 Oct 2025
What's Happening for Intersex Awareness in October 2025 Image of Australian fauna and flora including wattle, gumleaves, sugar glider, ringtail possum and frill neck lizard in a circular shape with green background. Centre text reads "Intersex Awareness Day". Logo for InterAction for Health and Human Rights shown.
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InterSpace: A soft place to land

The 2025 Intersex Peer Support Australia Retreat is set for 14 - 16 November 2025 in Pennyroyal, the beautiful Otways in regional Victoria. Registrations are now open!
2 Oct 2025
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The Carswell Forum 2025 provides a platform for intersex rights

The inaugural Carswell Forum 2025 was held on September 19 in Brisbane aimed at fostering collaboration among community members, activists, and government representatives.
29 Sep 2025
The 2025 Carswell Forum Thriving LGBQTIA+ people, families and communities in Queensland. Friday 19 September 9am- 4pm Royal International Convention Centre, RNA Showgrounds Hosted by Brisbane Pride Incorporated in partnership with the Queensland LGBQTIA+ Alliance Images of Brisbane Pride logo and Queensland LGBQTIA+ Alliance logo plus flag images. Photo of a smiling group of people in rainbow colours.
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Common Ground: Building Belonging, Justice, and Community Capacity in Queensland

From 15–18 September, QC hosted a transformative week of professional development and community capacity building: Common Ground. InterLink and InterAction representatives attended this conference together with other passionate advocates, community leaders, and health professionals to explore the themes of belonging and justice.
29 Sep 2025
Common Ground: Four Days of sharing stories that matter, woven through communities, strong in pride 15 to 19 September 2025 2 Spirits logo and QC logo
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UN Human Rights Council Side Event, 18 September 2025

If you're in Geneva, join us at a special side event on 18 September on fulfilling the human rights of intersex people.
15 Sep 2025
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UPDATED! Watch history live at the UN, 15 September!

Watch a historic milestone with presentation of a first ever intersex rights report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Updated with details of events on 15 September.
30 Sep 2025
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Congratulations on 12 years of visionary leadership

Today we celebrate 12 years of visionary leadership from Dr Morgan Carpenter, who has steered the evolution of what began as OII Australia, became Intersex Human Rights Australia, and now operates proudly as InterAction for Health and Human Rights.
1 Sep 2025
Congratulations on 12 years as Executive Director DR MORGAN CARPENTER. 3 photos of Morgan shown- one is a younger Morgan, pale man with dark hair and neatly trimmed facial hair. He is wearing a red, blue and white checked shirt. Another is Morgan delivering a speech- he is wearing glasses and wearing a white shirt and tan jacket. Main photo is of Morgan recently. He is wearing gold rimmed glasses, is smiling broadly and his hair has greyed from earlier days. He is wearing a blue grey jacket with intersex lapel pin.
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Welcome to our new website!

Our new website improves access to resource, and reflects changes in how we structure our organisation following the merger of our founding organisations.
27 Aug 2025
A screenshot of our new site, highlighting an image by Gabrielle Niemeyer saying that "All bodies are beautiful, all bodies deserve respect"
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Blume: "It's great things are changing"

Australian musician and intersex person Blume participated in Amsterdam Pride - in the first ever intersex boat in this parade on the city's canals. ABC covered the story.
24 Aug 2025
Two of the images shared by ABC Queer in this story about Blume at Amsterdam Pride
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InterAction congratulates Alastair Lawrie on being selected as a 2025 Justice Fellow

We warmly congratulate Alastair Lawrie on his selection by the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW as a Justice Fellow for 2025.
13 Aug 2025
Logo for InterAction is shown- name of InterAction for Health and Human Rights with a purple circle. Logo for Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales shown- their name with a line drawing of a set of justice scales. Text reads "InterAction for Health and Human Rights congratulates Alastair Lawrie Justice Fellow 2025. Photo is of Alastair Lawrie- middle aged, pale skinned man with short hair and dark facial hair. He is wearing a white shirt.
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