Thank you!!! I am very honoured and grateful to have been elected to represent and serve my community on the Hobsons Bay City Council for a 4th term. Thank you to the local community and especially my fellow residents of Altona, Altona Meadows, Altona North, Brooklyn and Seaholme for your amazing support. I was honestly…
Read moreInternational Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day to all women; women of colour, lesbian women, intersex women, bisexual women, straight women, trans women, mothers, women that couldn’t have children for whatever reason, disabled women, indigenous women, women of all ages, and any other women. We have come a long way in recent years but there is so much…
Read moreTony Briffa writes chapter in LGBTI book
Tony Briffa: “The Hippocratic Oath, Western Medicine, and the Children of Hermes and Aphrodite” Tony Briffa has written on being intersex and Maltese Australian in the book Living and Loving in Diversity: An anthology of Australian multicultural queer adventures (chief editor Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Wakefield Press). The book was launched at the 2018 Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council conference,…
Read moreTony Briffa: My experience as the world’s first openly intersex Mayor
My experience as the world’s first openly intersex Mayor When I was 30, I appeared on a national TV program in Austalia, 60 Minutes, outing myself as an intersex person. I never imagined what the years ahead of me had in store. There was one thing that became obvious fairly quickly though; once “out” I…
Read moreMaltese Exhibition!
Come along to a great exhibition about the Maltese culture and the local Maltese community at the Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre! The exhibition opens next Friday night (14th June) and will close on Friday 28th June. I will be there on the opening night with my mum. For more information, see the flyer,…
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