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Too busy to blog prepping tonights Rainbow Report Apl 24 2008 on Joy Melbourne 94.9FM, streaming live 7-8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time tonight. Join us: sms +61 (0)427 JOY 949, email onair@joy.org.au or even phone +613 9699 2949.

On tonight's show:

An eventful week – ACT Chief Minister John Stanhope has had Tibet on his mind this week, and not just because of the torch relay.

Finally losing patience with the Rudd governments obstruction of Civil Partnerships in the ACT, he wondered publicly at the hypocrisy of a Prime Minster and government championing human rights in Tibet while blocking human rights for gays and lesbians on their own doorstep

Shelly Argent of PLFAG got back from the 2020 summit with steam coming out of her ears after the strong support for Civil Unions she found didn’t make it into the final communiqué – but that’s now been put right, as she will tell us.

Martine Delaney is steaming because trans issues didn’t make it onto the 2020 agenda at all. It seems trans people were invisible when the guest list was being drawn up.

Up in Queensland – they do thing differently there – the doctors union told their members that any underage sex they uncovered in the course of their work had to be reported to the local cops. Rod Goodbun has that story.

New South Wales meanwhile produced a surprise package of reforms to gay and lesbian related law – Rodney Croome has the goods on that.

To help us make sense of it all, veteran activist Ron Thiele and MCV editor Richard Watts are with me in the studio.