These pages present public submissions, events and other materials relevant to South Australia. Please also review our policy briefings.
The Thorne Harbour Health Awards were established to honour individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ communities and people living with HIV. Over the years, the awards have recognised a wide range of contributions, from advocacy and volunteer work to leadership and community support. The Awards for…
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A timeline of legal, community and other key reforms in Australian jurisdictions. This page highlights good practice and documents the history of them and other developments.
In May 2018, Dr Michael Noble passed away. IHRA lost one of our longstanding members, and Australia lost one of our first wave of intersex activists. We remember him and his works.
In November 2016, a diverse group of people with intersex variations participated in a parliamentary briefing, including intersex women, intersex men and people with other gender identities, talking about the issues that concerned us: of isolation, unnecessary medicalisation, and lack of bodily autonomy. In March 2017, more than twenty current and future leaders of the…
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Witnessed by members and representatives of the South Australian LGBTI communities, on 1 December, the Hon. J Weatherill, Premier of South Australia put the following motion to the House of Assembly: 1. That this house recognises that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer community members have been discriminated against by South Australia’s legislation….
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Michael Noble wrote and presented this biography at the Gay and Lesbian Feast Festival, Adelaide, South Australia in 2002. He subsequently revised it for publication here.
Michael Noble wrote this paper on representations of his trait, Klinefelter Syndrome (47,XXY) in 2003, and revised it in 2010. This is the revised version.
A National Police Certificate check is increasingly required by potential employers of all kinds before Australians will be considered for employment. This has left many intersex people living in fear of discovery and rejection, especially those of us who were assigned one sex at birth but who are in fact the other sex, both sexes…
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