Joe Hildebrand from the Daily Telegraph is using his News Limited position as a platform to encourage homophobia and voice his own homophobic ideals.
Joe was the journalist (if that’s what you can call him) who twisted my words and put my doctored face all over the national press on Tuesday.
Today Joe posted that Gays are [...]
Archive > December 2008
‘Gays are going to Hell’ – According to Joe from News Limited
Tanya Plibersek – Replied
THIS IS NOT ABOUT TELSTRA
Point to ponder:
Maybe the Government doesn’t want to change the law to grant homosexual people equal discrimination rights, because if we were able to make complaints under any discrimination category (rather than just employment), we could then complain to the Australian Human Rights Commision that our human rights have been [...]
Homophobia, alive and well in Australia
I NEVER MADE A COMPLAINT ABOUT TELSTRA.
But even if I wanted to, I can’t.
So thank you to all of you who have contacted me to tell me to build a bridge, get a life, move on, get a boyfriend/girlfriend and so on. Also, thank you to all the people who contacted me to call me [...]
Thanks Joe, you’re my ray of sunshine
My complaint is not with Telstra, or their stupid Ad.
My complaint is with HREOC for not treating sexual preference discrimination the same as all other types.
Joe from the Telegraph took my words out of context and misrepresented what I said.
I was contacted by Joe at the Daily Telegraph about my blog. How he found it [...]
Letter to Tanya Plibersek.
Tanya Plibersek - the Minister for Housing and the Status of Women, also the Federal Member for Sydney, told me in person that the Rudd Government had eradicated all human rights violations surrounding the treatment of homosexual people in Australia. She was wrong, evidenced by the recent complaint rejection I received from www.humanrights.gov.au, the Australian Federal [...]
Humanrights.gov.au – Response
They are fast!
This is a response to a complaint I lodged with www.humanrights.gov.au -
You can view my initial complaint here
Karen from www.humanrights.gov.au responded, quickly I might add.
Sadly her response is a palm off. Not her fault, but still…
Here it is:
Dear Andrew
The laws we administer only allow us to deal with complaints on the basis of [...]
Homophobic Telstra Advertisement
The Government won’t assist us.
I woke up this morning and logged in to www.smh.com.au to read the news. Telstra pays a fortune to advertise on fairfax, and in their most recent campaign for Next Gen Mobile coverage they try to be funny in a homophobic and utterly stupid way.
Here is the ad (click the speaker [...]