Roll in the Hayes
Southern Star Observer chats to former Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes about his new solo album Secret Codes and
Battleships and how coming out saved his life.
FULL STORY: Page 15
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper...
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Roll in the Hayes
Southern Star Observer chats to former Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes about his new solo album Secret Codes and
Battleships and how coming out saved his life.
FULL STORY: Page 15
southern
Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
2008 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 157 Thursday 20 October 2011
Hate crime
sentence to
be appealed
Victoria Police may appeal a three-month
suspended sentence handed to a Melbourne
man for his part in a violent gay bashing on
SydneyRdlastyear.
The man, Billal Ali, was also fined $1500 and
placed on a 12-month community-based order
for the brutal attack which left a gay couple with
bruising,cutsandonevictimwithpost-traumatic
stressdisorder.
Theincidentoccurredat9.
30pmonChristmas
night 2010 when Ali and his cousin Houssain El
Halabi,fromacar,approachedthetwomenwho
wereholdinghands.
Ali and El Halabi hurled homophobic abuse
at the couple and Ali threw a bottle at the head
of one of the victims before the two offenders set
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