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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb (centre) marches with colleagues in the 2023 Mardi Gras parade.

Mardi Gras votes by tiny margin to keep NSW Police in Sydney parade

NSW Police will take part in the 2025 Mardi Gras after the parade’s members voted down a motion to exclude them by 34 votes.

  • Max Maddison

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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb (centre) marches with colleagues in the 2023 Mardi Gras parade.

‘Slap in the face’: Move to ban police from Mardi Gras attacked as hypocritical

As Mardi Gras members prepare to vote on barring NSW Police from participating in the 2025 parade, the premier has condemned the move.

  • Max Maddison

The secret reason behind Mardi Gras move to ban NSW police

A motivated, radical group wants Mardi Gras to be more exclusionary. Less radical queers are now the enemy.

  • Peter Stahel
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb (centre) marches with colleagues in the 2023 Mardi Gras parade.

Mardi Gras moves to ban NSW Police from parade

The long-vexed relationship with the force reached a new low last year. Now Mardi Gras members will vote on whether to exclude officers from the 2025 parade.

  • Max Maddison
Broadcaster Vaughan Hinton on location.

ABC broadcaster behind first coverage of Mardi Gras and Compass

From early on, media and public service had been in Vaughan Hinton’s DNA.

  • Noel Debien
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese marches at Mardi Gras.

PM faces call to be banned from Mardi Gras over census

About one in 10 Australians are estimated to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, according to a 2019 report from the Department of Health.

  • Paul Sakkal and Kat Wong
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The Oxford & Foley redevelopment stretches along almost three blocks of Oxford Street in Darlinghurst.

Is Clover to blame for turning Oxford Street from party precinct into a ghost town?

A troubled construction project has added to the woes plaguing Sydney’s iconic gay strip.

  • Andrew Taylor
Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch.

Pink fit over Murdochs’ million-dollar gift

Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch have inadvertently landed in the centre of tensions over Sydney’s new multimillion-dollar queer museum.

  • Andrew Hornery
Police took protesters on the parade route away just before 9.30pm.

Pro-Palestinian protesters charged following Mardi Gras incident

The group jumped fences to enter the parade holding a large banner that read “Queer Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance” in front of NSW Premier Chris Minns.

  • Anthony Segaert
Participants during the 2024 Mardi Gras on Hyde Park, Sydney, Saturday 2 March, 2024. Tens of thousands of spectators have lined Oxford Street to watch more than 200 floats and 12,000 marchers take part in the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade. Photo: Flavio Brancaleone / The Sydney Morning Herald

Mardi Gras 2024 as it happened: Palestine protest targets Labor; Tribute to Jesse Baird and Luke Davies; NSW Police march in plain clothes

Welcome to our live blog coverage of the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. More than 12,000 marchers are assembling at Hyde Park ahead of the festivities.

  • Mary Ward

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