Queer News Down Under

Kim Hill interviews Ruth Shaw about her varied and interesting life.
Ruth has lived life on the high seas, worked with sex-workers in Sydney’s infamous King’s Cross including the infamous wall, and spent decades fighting for the environment.
She and her husband Lance spent 16 years operating the Breaksea Girl in Fiordland, helping raise awareness of the conservation happening on the country’s first pest-free islands....

ABC Radio National Sunday Extra podcast on the anniversary of Alan Turing’s death in 1954.
Andrew Hodges – Mathematician and biographer of Alan Turing – talk about Turing’s life.
British computer pioneer and WW2 code-breaker Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, died on this day in 1954 from cyanide poisoning....

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If you live in Australia or New Zealand sign up to Flu Tracking and help understand the potential spread of the influenza.
The process is simple and all questions are voluntary.

If you are a gay or bisexual man living in Australia then consider joining the Flux research project
The project will investigate the experiences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on pre-existing epidemics among gay and bisexual men.
The project will also explore lived experiences of COVID-19 among gay and bisexual men including isolation, support, mental health and resilience, income loss, and access to health services....