Tackling homophobia in a regional town | Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australia | ABC TV + iview

Miriam Margolyes meets Abbie Kelly from Broken Hill. After seeing casual homophobia at school Abbie started a charity. #ImpossiblyAustralian
Warning: this story contains discussions of suicide and homophobic abuse.

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Following a recent heart operation in London, Miriam is worried about what the future holds. So, ignoring everyone's advice to "slow down", she returns to Australia, a place she considers her second home and a country that, for her, has always meant new horizons.

Across the three-part series, she embarks on a personal mission, travelling to Perth, Byron Bay and Broken Hill, meeting communities that are facing change and who can teach her how to adapt to whatever the future holds.

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[helenc]

I can't imagine where such a young girl gets that much courage... To take on a whole school's worth of teenagers, all so desperate to fit in and capable of such cruelty, and just quietly getting on with being 'different' and making a stand for inclusion and acceptance... Absolutely AMAZING! I wish we had kids like her at our school. I'm so glad she has such a supportive mother. I'm sure it's made all the difference to Abbie and that her mother is very proud of her. Who knows how many lives she's changed. What a beautiful contribution to the world... ❤️

[CatsOfMarrakech]

Bullying is so pathetic. One little rat eggs on kids to bully an unsuspecting kid. Always struck us as bizarre that the rat is never blamed just the bullies they egg on.

[anserbauer]

Isn't it wonderful to read the NSW Department of Education's response to her reports of bullying? Abbie's experience sounds so much much like my back in the 1980's. My school said very much the same thing as Abbie's school at the time too. 40 years later and nothing has changed.

Yet there's a particular set of politicians and media commentators who label _any_ attempt to address homophobic/transphobic bullying in schools as 'grooming' and 'sexualising children' and imply that teachers who attempt to address the attitudes and beliefs behind the bullying behaviour are 'sexual deviants'. Seems to me these are just the sort of bigots who sexualise their own children by expressing their own sexual hangups and insecurities about other people in front of their children in the first place.

[rikkim]

Look every one seeing this are victims of bullying. Doesnt matter if u are bi or not. I got bullied something terrible because l was so skinny and b ecause of our religion.