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Tonight, we’re talking about creepy clowns, or ‘Clown Hysteria’, a fear-filled phenomenon of people dressing up as creepy clowns in public. The trend started in the South Carolina and has since spread to Europe, the […]

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On tonight’s edition of The Informer we’re chatting with Melbourne’s recently crowned LGBTI Person of the Year Georgie Stone, who took home the award over the weekend for her incredible advocacy in the trans space. […]

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VAC’s CEO, Simon Ruth joins us to discuss reports that Victoria’s HIV rates are up from 143 cases last year, to 170 cases for the corresponding six-month period this year.  And that there is now […]

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The Victorian Health Minister, the Honourable Jill Hennessy has been targeted by anti-vax internet trolls, hurling abuse at her BUT she has publically stood up to them, find out why. Meghan Fitzgerald from the Fitzroy […]

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Today, Australian Marriage Equality and Australians 4 Equally launched The Equality Campaign, a positive, inclusive marriage equality campaign that is sharing the stories of LGBTIA Australians and their loved ones. The campaign aims to show […]

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The Informer talks to Dr Mark Stoove Associate Professor at the Burnet Institute about the rise in sexually transmitted infections in the gay men’s population. Is there a reason(s) behind this increase? We get the low […]

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A war is being waged against Safe Schools in Victoria. On Thursday last week, members of the Victorian Chinese community submitted a petition calling for the removal of the Safe Schools LGBTIA Anti-bullying program to State […]

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On tonight’s edition of The Informer we looked at a post-plebiscite reality, and what that means for LGBTI Australians. We spoke with Get Up’s Marriage Equality campaigns director Sally Rugg about the possibility of a […]

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The Informer continues from last Wednesday night’s coverage of SBS’s Deep Water, the network-wide exploration of gay hate crimes and murders that took place in NSW throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. Tonight Dean Beck talks […]

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Senator Eric Abetz (Lib.) and the Honorable Terri Butler (ALP) join us on The Informer to talk about the decision by the ALP caucus NOT  to support the Government’s plebiscite bill when it is put […]

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