By Stephanie Bastiaan

With the Victorian Parliament resuming this week, it’s a good time to reflect on the highs and lows of the recent Victorian election, and the lay of the land as Victoria begins a new parliamentary year.

By Rachael Wong

On Monday, the Administrative Review Tribunal (formerly the Administrative Appeals Tribunal) upheld the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) 2023 decision to deny the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) an exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) to exclude ‘transgender lesbians’ from its public events.

By Rachael Wong

Justice has been served!

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Victorian mother and breastfeeding advocate Jasmine Sussex is being taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) by trans-identified male Jennifer Buckley after raising concerns online about biological males trying to chest feed newborn babies. Courts, including QCAT, have the power to summon respondents to attend proceedings in a location most convenient to the applicant. This legal action follows three years of complaints by Buckley to various authorities, including the Queensland Human Rights Commission and the e-Safety Commission, who subsequently ordered posts by Sussex that said men can't breastfeed to be removed. 

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Victorian Liberal MP Nicole Werner has announced she and her husband Fraser are expecting their first baby after a lengthy struggle with infertility following a Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis.

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Deeming vs Pesutto moves closer to trial as the parties file affidavits in the Federal Court this week. These documents are expected to include the evidence Victorian Liberal Leader John Pesutto will rely on to show Liberal MP Moira Deeming associated with rally organisers and speakers with known links and associations with Neo-Nazi, white supremacist and other extremist groups at the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne last year.

Yesterday afternoon, Victorian MPs shamefully voted down a motion for an inquiry into the medicalised gender affirmation of minors, to ensure children with gender dysphoria are receiving the best possible evidenced-based care. The motion, which was moved by Liberal MP Moira Deeming in the Victorian Legislative Council, failed 21-16.

Something momentous happened this week.

By Stephanie Bastiaan

Liberal MP Moira Deeming has issued Victorian Liberal Opposition Leader John Pesutto with a third Defamation Concerns Notice as she prepares to launch defamation proceedings against him in the Federal Court.

By Stephanie Bastiaan

It’s been a gut-wrenching fortnight for Liberal Party supporters watching the vilification of Moira Deeming, who, through no fault of her own, became a story of John Pesutto’s making when he tied her in with Nazis who gate crashed the Let Women’s Speak rally in Melbourne.