Packets from Abroad - Katrina and Tracie
Posted in Equality and Diversity, Interviews, Australia on Jan 15th, 2009 No Comments »
What springs to mind if you think of Australia? Crocodile Dundee? Neighbours? Straight talking straight men who would’t give a Castlemaine XXXX ?
How about serious debate on a third gender category for passports and official documents? Or inheritance rights for same sex adults regardless of whether they’re in an amorous relationship or not? Things have evidently changed down under since Skippy and the Flying Doctor roamed the outback.
Katrina Fox is a journalist; Tracie O’Keefe is her therapist partner. Together they emigrated from Britain in 2001 and settled in Sydney where they’ve set up an organisation called Sex and Gender Education (SAGE). They talk to me in detail about Australian culture and their activist work.
