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<div>Colleagues,</div>
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<div>I hope you do not mind me sharing this news for your
interest.</div>
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<div>kind regards</div>
<div>Baden</div>
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<div>This is the latest<b> media release</b> posted by Southern Cross
University - Thursday 12 May 2005.<br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Homosexual rights book earns
national prize</b></font><br>
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<div>Southern Cross University senior lecturer in Cultural Studies and
Director of the Centre for Law, Politics and Culture Dr Baden Offord
has been awarded the annual George Duncan Memorial Award for his book
Homosexual Rights as Human Rights.</div>
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The book (published in 2003), on homosexual rights as human rights in
Indonesia, Singapore and Australia, was described as
"groundbreaking" and "an important contribution to the
struggle for equal rights worldwide" by the George Duncan
Memorial committee.<br>
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The national George Duncan Memorial Award commemorates the murder,
with no subsequent conviction for the crime, of law lecturer Dr George
Duncan near the University of Adelaide in 1972. South Australia later
became the first state to decriminalise homosexual acts in 1975.<br>
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Dr Offord said receiving the award was an honour. He said he was 14
when Dr Duncan was murdered and remembered the news at that time.<br>
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"Australia has come some was way in the past 30 years, but it
would be incorrect to think that enough has been accomplished to end
overt and covert discrimination in our society and families," he
said.<br>
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"Sexuality, that dimension of being human which makes us most
vulnerable, is still caught up in social and cultural
apartheids."<br>
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In the foreword to Homosexual Rights as Human Rights, the Hon. Justice
Michael Kirby compared the work to the pioneering studies of Alfred
Kinsey and said Dr Offord pushed the boundaries of understanding,
knowledge and acceptance.<br>
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The award, in its second year, is presented for an outstanding piece
of work contributing to legal reform and the betterment of the
Australian lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, transgender or intersex
community.<br>
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The George Duncan Memorial Award 2005 was announced at a ceremony in
Adelaide on Tuesday, May 10.<br>
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<b>Media contact: Brigid Veale, SCU Media Liaison, 66593006 or m. 0439
680 748.</b><br>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">Dr Baden Offord<br>
BA (Syd) BA (Hons) PhD (SCU) MACE<br>
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and History</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">BA Course Coordinator</font></div>
<div><font color="#0000FF">Director,<i> Centre for Law, Politics &
Culture</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000FF">Chair, Human Research Ethics
Committee</font><font color="#000000"><br>
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School of Arts<br>
Southern Cross University<br>
PO Box 157 Lismore 2480<br>
Australia<br>
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Telephone: + 61 2 66203 162</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Fax: + 61 2 66 221 683</font></div>
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