As an LGBTI advocate and activist based in Sydney, and someone who was previously the Policy Working Group Chair of the NSW Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby, I have written a number of letters and submissions about LGBTI law reform issues in New South Wales. This page brings together my key posts on this subject, with many of these issues also summarised here:

• An LGBTI Agenda for NSW

More specifically, I have written several articles about the need to improve the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, which was the first gay anti-discrimination legislation in the country, but now offers arguably the worst protections against anti-LGBTI discrimination in Australia:

• What’s Wrong With the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977? 

• Questions for MPs and Candidates During Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras 

• Letter to Bruce Notley-Smith re Baird Liberal-National Government Commitments on NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977

• Submission on Alex Greenwich’s Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Private Educational Authorities) Bill 2013

It also includes two posts specifically on the need to modernise anti-vilification coverage under the Act:

• Will NSW Reforms Prioritise Racial Vilification at the Expense of LGBTI Vilification?

• Letter to Paul Lynch re Anti-Vilification Reform

Another issue to be the topic of multiple articles was the repeal of the ‘homosexual advance defence’ or ‘gay panic defence’ in NSW criminal law:

• Submission on Homosexual Advance Defence 

• Submission on Crimes Amendment Bill 2013 re Homosexual Advence or Gay Panic Defence

• The End (Almost) of the Homosexual Advance Defence in NSW

And finally a number of other posts on a broad range of other topics:

• Submission to NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Youth Suicide
• Every Student. Every School. Submission on Draft NSW Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) K-10 Syllabus
• Submission on Review of NSW Surrogacy Act 2010 
• Submission to Review of NSW Relationships Register Act 2010 
• 30^th Anniversary of Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in NSW 
• Submission to Alex Greenwich Discussion Paper re Removing Surgical Requirement for Changes to Birth Certificate
• Submission to NSW Parliament Inquiry into False or Misleading Health Practices re Ex-Gay Therapy and Intersex Sterilisation 
• NSW Same-Sex Marriage Inquiry Submission and
• NSW State Same-Sex Marriage Inquiry Introductory Comments