Sydney Bi Pub night
Every third sunday of the month at the marlborough hotel, newtown.
look for a blue and red candle
see the events page at http://www.bi-nsw.org.au for more info
Brisbane Bi Cafe
meet bi-weekly at the pl8 cafe in windsor. For exact dates go to http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ausbinet/calenda2.htm
Melbourne Bi Cafe
Date: 2nd Saturday each month (that's the second Saturday, not every second Saturday)
Time: 5.30pm onwards
Venue: The Lounge upstairs. 243 Swanston St
Rights groups have long campaigned for a repeal of the law
A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act.
The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence".
Rights groups have long argued that the law contravened human rights.
Delhi's High Court ruled that the law outlawing homosexual acts was discriminatory and a "violation of fundamental rights".
Polyamory weekly, the weekly radio show available via podcast from http://polyweekly.com/ , has released its 200th podcast which contains many personal stories of how poly weekly has helped poly people all over the world. The 200th podcast also features a couple of people who have phoned in from Australia.
It, along with all 199 other poly weekly podcasts contaning a wealth of information and relationship advice is available from polyweekly.com
This article is from the alt.polyamory newsgroup.
Its very long and describes alot of personal stories on how and where polyamorus people have met. Its a good starting point for people who are new to polyamory giving many examples of how other people started out in polyamory.
There is a chat group for bisexual people which starts randomly when I see a number of people online at once.
Add follow_me_69_au@hotmail.com to your MSN to get involved. Message AussieGuy about getting added to the list.
The chats start automatically so you don't have to do anything extra. Average chat size is 15-25 people which so far is the biggest chatroom for a bi group anywhere in the world and their all Australian (well, 95%).
The Catholic priest in Queensland who's been sacked for preaching outside the church's guidelines has vowed to take his congregation with him unless he is reinstated.
Over the weekend, St Mary's church in Brisbane held their last masses lead by Father Peter Kennedy.
The Catholic church have sacked him for leading unorthodox masses, performing same-sex marriage ceremonies and not respecting the church hierarchy...
Umberto Veronessi, an Italian scientific, predicts the world will develop into a "unique model" in which bisexuality will prevail in three generations' time, according to Umberto Veronesi, aged 81, married several times, father of half a dozen sons and daughters and one of the most renowned scientists in Europe.
In an interview for several Italian media including "Il Reformista" and "Corriere della Sera," Veronessi talked about this issue that has been the center of attention during the European summer.
Looks like all the complains to Google got through. The article straight gay or lying is now off the number one search results page.
For those that dont know, it got put there by a hacker using shady SEO (Serch engine optimization) techniques to try to trick google's seach indexing systems. They posted links to the article to many link directories and forums/blogs using spam techniques, most likely using automated spam programs.
The Internet. Should Kevin Rudd control what you know?
Senator Stephen Conroy is the face of Kevin Rudd's campaign to control what Australians can access on the internet.
The media is awash with references to Labor's desire to install filters on the internet connections of all Australians. The controversial issue seems to be what is "unwanted content". Senator Conroy, Labor's public face to the proposal, has issued statements including:
NY Times Gay, Straight, Or Lying is on page 1 of google.com's results for "bisexual" (NOTE that to see it you have to go to and search with google.com, not googles local version for your country e.g. google.com.au or google.co.uk). To get to the international google.com, go to http://www.google.com/ncr .
For those that dont know, this article quotes dis-proven research that was done by a professor, who was later expelled from his university for using false data.