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The US rapper, Macklemore, issued a call for equality after an emotional performance of his hit single, Same Love, in a much-hyped pre-game show at the NRL grand final.

The performance at ANZ Stadium in Sydney follows a bizarre week in which the hip-hop artist became the focus of national attention due to his decision to play the song as part of his setlist in the midst of the campaign surrounding Australia's non-binding, voluntary postal survey on marriage equality.

Macklemore has previously described Same Love as a song that "deals with equal rights, human rights" for LGBTI people. "This is an issue that I feel strongly about, that I feel passionate about. These people are human beings that should have the exact same rights as everybody else," he said.

While he did not reference the marriage equality campaign directly, the rapper did slightly alter the lyrics in the third verse of Same Love to call for "the country" to be united by law, and closed out the performance with a call for "equality for all".

Same Love was performed with Mary Lambert, who describes herself as "hella gay", and who has also vocalised her support for the yes campaign in Australia over the past week.

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Just landed in Sydney and feeling super gay! The gayest! Gay gay gay gay also ps Same Love is number 1 in Australia today 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 https://t.co/ekzlYxwZwB

"Performing Same Love in Australia is not about being political," said Lambert in a statement to the Advocate on Thursday. "It's about being human."

The 2013 single saw an unprecedented return to the top of the Apple Music charts on Thursday after a week of controversy. Macklemore has since announced that he will donate the Australian earnings of Same Love to the yes campaign.

Macklemore kicked off his set with the 2012 hit Can't Hold Us, making his way through the stadium's corridors in a silver velour jacket, surrounded by dancers, high-fiving Cowboys great Johnathon Thurston on his way through, before making his way out into the arena.

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He followed it up with the bouncing beats of Thrift Shop and Downtown followed by Same Love. He then closed out his set with Glorious.

During the performance, the stage was surrounded by large clusters of multicoloured balloons which were thrown about by the audience.

Macklemore's performance was immediately followed on Channel Nine's telecast of the match between Melbourne Storm and the North Queensland Cowboys by an advert from the anti-marriage equality campaign group, Coalition for Marriage.

Prior to travelling to Australia, Macklemore told LA radio station Power 106 that he was "getting a lot of tweets from angry old white dudes in Australia" in the lead-up to his performance, but the attempts to prevent him from playing the song were only going to make him "go harder".

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I was there when @macklemore and the @NRL sang for diversity and inclusion. Greatest game of all. #NRLGF 🌈🌈🌈🌈

Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister, said on Friday that he was looking forward to Macklemore singing his "gay anthem".

Turnbull's comments came a day after the former prime minister, Tony Abbott, lent his support to a petition from former rugby league player Tony Wall to ban Macklemore from performing Same Love, tweeting: "Footy fans shouldn't be subjected to a politicised grand final. Sport is sport!"

Liberal senator Eric Abetz also called for the song to be banned, as did another former prime minister, John Howard, and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson - though Hanson admitted in an interview on Sunrise on Thursday that she did not know who Macklemore was, and seemed more concerned with the fact that he was not Australian.

Meanwhile Macklemore found support from a number of unexpected quarters, including the attorney general George Brandis and Tony Abbott's own daughter, Frances, who appeared in an advert for the yes campaign saying, "I think marriage equality would make society a much better place" and urged Macklemore to "go harder" in a post on Instagram.

Despite politicians' calls to keep politics out of the game, this is not the first time a musician has performed politically charged material at the NRL grand final. In 2015, Cold Chisel performed their hugely popular song about a wayward Vietnam veteran, Khe Sanh; in 1991, the Village People performed their gay anthem YMCA; and in 1989, John Williamson performed his anti-logging single, Rip Rip Woodchip.

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The NRL publicly supports marriage equality, and on Sunday night during Macklemore's performance the stadium screen displayed messages reading, "We stand for inclusiveness" and "We stand for equality".

Its position is reportedly due to the intervention of the only openly gay NRL player in history, Ian Roberts, who wrote directly to NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg asking him not to "miss this moment in history".

Greenberg said in response that the NRL had a "a duty" to back up its policy of "inclusiveness" with action. "We need to treat everyone equally both on and off the field and that's why we will publicly support the same-sex marriage proposal," he said.

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Message from #NRL during Macklemore's 'Same Love'. Amen. #NRLGF pic.twitter.com/58zqb2Izop

Macklemore had been booked to perform at the NRL grand final before the postal survey had been found lawful.

A representative from the NRL told Guardian Australia on Wednesday that "Macklemore was chosen as the grand final act because he is currently one of the top acts in the world". The NRL also said in a statement on 1 September that Macklemore had been "specifically requested by a fan focus group".

Reports on Sunday that bags would be searched and rainbow flags or other marriage equality campaign propaganda would be banned were denied by ANZ Stadium, who said fans were "encouraged to bring colour and energy to the event and are allowed to express their views," and that "small flags and banners" were permitted.

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In 2003, the pop group's song "Where Is the Love?" was in the top 8 on the Billboard 100. Now will.i.am has rewritten the song. He tells Rachel Martin it's been adapted to reflect the issues of 2016.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHERE IS THE LOVE?")

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

You remember this song - "Where Is The Love" by the Black Eyed Peas. It was one of the top songs of 2003.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHERE IS THE LOVE?")

THE BLACK EYED PEAS: What's wrong with the world, Mama? People living like they ain't got no mamas. I think this whole world...

MARTIN: Now, the Black Eyed Peas have released a new version, remixed and rewritten to reflect what's happening in the world today.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "#WHERESTHELOVE")

THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Where is the love when a child gets murdered or a cop gets knocked down? Black lives, not now - everybody matter to me...

MARTIN: One of the song's creators, will.i.am, joins me now from our studios in New York. Thanks so much for being with us.

WILL.I.AM: Thank you for having me.

MARTIN: This song was so huge at the time. It still is. Why did you feel compelled to recast it?

WILL.I.AM: So the first time we wrote "Where Is The Love?" was after 9/11. We went on tour 2001 on September the 12. And we saw what America felt like. We felt what America felt like. And the result was writing that song. And since then, horrific things have happened to the world.

And we're witnessing, like, people with no empathy, no sympathy anymore - and then at the same time, like, amnesia, where something happens, we feel for it, and then a week later we, like, go back to that routine of forgetting. So we wanted to aim this song and remind people that there's still a lot of problems out there that need people's attention.

MARTIN: Did you think about how to make a bigger impact than you may have done with the original?

WILL.I.AM: So the original was - it was a rinse. This is what we felt, and we rinsed it out and the liquid was "Where Is The Love?" Our tears, our thoughts - we rinsed it out. This one was - we rinse it out, and this water is going to the drought. And that drought is not getting our kids up to speed to compete and solve tomorrow's problems. There's kids in the inner city that are subject to crime and in and out of correctional facilities. So this rinsing out goes there.

MARTIN: Did you think about writing a different song about racial discrimination, about police brutality, about the failure of the education system? And if not, why? Why was it more powerful, in your mind, to go back to something that you'd already done?

WILL.I.AM: So really, just those lyrics - Father, Father, Father, help us. Send some guidance from above 'cause people got me, got me questioning, where is the love? It's like a prayer, actually. I remember my grandma, she used to pray for us and say the our father prayer. She would repeat the same prayer to keep us guided where our heart is aimed at the right direction. So why don't we just take a deep breath, stop all this division, stop all this, like, is the media telling me that the world's racist or is the world racist? Or is it a lack of investment?

It's really not racism. It's really just, like, this system that's in place that - we just have to look at it because the same folks that are filling up the prisons are the same folks that we neglected their education on. And it just so happens to be black people. So, yes, from that perspective, black lives matter. But all lives matter, all lives to pay attention to this system that we have to just, like, untangle.

MARTIN: So you don't buy what you're saying is a narrative out there that America hasn't grappled with its racist past, that there is still racism in this country?

WILL.I.AM: People to people, no. The system, yes - that we have to look at. And the reason why it is because the people ain't paying attention. So it's - both are at fault.

MARTIN: That was will.i.am talking about the Black Eyed Peas' remake of "Where Is The Love?"

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "#WHERESTHELOVE")

THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Where is the love? Oversees, yeah, they're trying to stop terrorism. Where is the Love? Over here, on the streets...

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-10% health care staff expressing belief that gay, bi need curing
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Overview

No one should be told their identity is something that can be cured.

Yet many lesbian, gay, bi and trans people are being poorly treated by health and social care services, including by staff who believe that sexual orientation or gender identity is something that can be 'cured'.

In fact, our Unhealthy Attitudes (2015) report found that 10 per cent of health and care staff have witnessed colleagues expressing the belief that lesbian, gay and bi people can be 'cured' of their sexual orientation.

On the basis of this and wider evidence, we are calling for central government to publicly condemn this practice and take further steps to ensure the practice is unavailable.

We are also calling for health and social care leaders and regulators to communicate a clear message to psychotherapists and counsellors that trying to 'cure' lesbian, gay, bi and trans people is both harmful and dangerous.

What is 'conversion therapy' or 'cure' therapy?

Conversion therapy (or 'cure' therapy or reparative therapy) refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aims to reduce or stop same-sex attraction or to suppress a person's gender identity. It is based on an assumption that being lesbian, gay, bi or trans is a mental illness that can be 'cured'. These therapies are both unethical and harmful.

In the UK, all major counselling and psychotherapy bodies, as well as the NHS, have concluded that conversion therapy is dangerous and have condemned it by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (PDF). We are working to make sure that this covers gender identity too.

How often does it happen?

Evidence suggests that lesbian, gay, bi and trans people continue to experience these harmful therapies.

Our Unhealthy Attitudes research found that one in 10 health and social care staff have witnessed colleagues express the belief that sexual orientation can be 'cured', which rises to 1 in 5 among health and care staff in London.

A 2009 survey of over 1,300 accredited mental health professionals found that more than 200 had offered some form of conversion therapy, with 35 per cent of patients referred to them for treatment by GPs and 40 per cent treated inside an NHS practice.

Where to get help

For further information please contact Stonewall's Information Service on 08000 502020, email info@stonewall.org.uk or fill out our .

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Global Citizen Rewards offers you the same opportunity. This year-round initiative offers you a chance to win today's hottest concert tickets by redeeming the points you earn for taking action on our website. Read on to remember the fifteen most influential times in music and how its impact has created harmony around our world today.
There are a lot of famous quotes alluding to the power of music, but here's one of my favorites:
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." -Plato
I know- intense. But I couldn't agree with Plato more. While it might seem extreme to give music that much power, this guy knew what he was talking about.

Music is a universal language that we all understand. By appealing to our emotions, it has the ability to break down complex issues into things we can all relate to like love, friendship, fear, or loss. In this way music expands our horizons and opens our minds to new ideas.

In my opinion, using music as a tool to build movement is one of the most important aspects to Global Citizen and is something that I believe makes the organization unique. That said, we are hardly the first or the last to use music to inspire and empower.

Music can change the world, and here are 16 examples that prove it:
1. Bob Dylan: "Times They Are A-Changin'"
While Bob Dylan has long been outspoken on several issues, he is especially known for his songs about the African-American Civil Rights movement during the 1960s. His hit "Times They Are A-Changin'" for example, was intended for a young generation of the 60′s who felt that segregation and oppression were outdated practices and were looking for change. Its ambiguous nature, however, will allow it to inspire future generations.
2. Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
This global telethon was hosted on January 22, 2010 to raise funds after an earthquake struck Haiti. With an audience of 83 million viewers, the concert raised $58 million. Musicians included Madonna, Coldplay, and Shakira, and an original song "Stranded (Haiti mon amour)" was performed by Bono, The Edge, JAY Z, and Rihanna.
3. "Sun City"
In 1985 activist and performer Steven Van Zandt and record producer Arthur Baker formed the group "Artists United Against Apartheid" to protest apartheid in South Africa. With journalist Danny Schechter's help the two sought out a group of well known artists including Bruce Springsteen and Miles Davis to perform the protest song "Sun City". In addition to the song an album was eventually created along with a documentary.
4. Bob Marley and the Wailers: "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
Known by some as the "Voice of the third world", Marley was another artist who chose to use his music to make political and social statements. "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)", performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1975, warns of the danger of letting a nation's poor to go hungry.
5. K'naan: "Wavin' Flag"
Keinan Abdi Warsame, known by his stage name K'naan, was born and raised in Mogadishu, Somalia. After the start of a civil war, however, his family feared for his safety and joined his father briefly in New York City, followed by Canada. While K'naan doesn't consider himself political, he attempts to use his music to describe things as they are like in his hit song "Wavin' Flag" which was the 2010 Soccer World Cup anthem. In its original lyrics, he talks about the struggle of refugees displaced by war, and how people are waiting for the dream of freedom.
6. Live Aid
This 1985 concert organized by Bob Gedolf and Midge Ure is often considered to be the first benefit concert of its kind, having raised $245 million for famine relief in Ethiopia. The concert was held simultaneously in London, England and Philadephia, USA with a total of 172,000 attendees and an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion across 150 countries.
7. 46664 Concerts
In 2003, the first 46664 Concert was held in Capetown, South Africa, hosted by Nelson Mandela in an effort to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Beyonce, Youssou N'Dour, and Queen were just a few of the big names present for the concert. The Concert has been named in honor of Nelson Mandela's Prison number from the 25 years he was incarcerated.
8. John Lennon: "Imagine"
Widely regarded as John Lennon's signature song, "Imagine" convey's his wish for world peace. Initially inspired by a poem written by Yoko Ono, "Imagine" is poignant as we look to the future and work towards a world without extreme poverty.
9. Tsunami Aid: Concert of Hope
This worldwide benefit was held for the tsunami victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. In a new, innovative way to collect funds, viewers were able to purchase digital downloads of performances from entertainers including Madonna, Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton and Roger Waters. It is estimated that the concert earned at least $5 million by the end of the broadcast.
10. The Concert for Bangladesh
Organized by former Beatles lead guitarist and George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, the concert was held twice on Sunday, 1 August 1971 to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related Bangladesh atrocities. 40,000 people attended to listen to artists including Harrison, fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton. Decades later Shankar said of the event: "In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh. It was a fantastic occasion ..."
11. Live 8
On July 2, 2005, a string of concerts took place in the G8 States as well as South Africa. With the G8 conference around the corner, the concerts served as a call to action to increase foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. The event was a success- on July 7, 2005 G8 leaders pledged to double the 2004 levels of aid.
12. Patti Smith: "People Have the Power"
Not someone to shy away from making political statements, Patti Smith has used her music to as a means of political activism, condemning war and human rights abuses. On a more uplifting note, her song "People Have the Power" is a powerful reminder to not sit passively but rather work to create the world we want to live in.
13. Farm Aid
Since 1985, Farm Aid has organised an annual concert to support local family farmers and to raise awareness of the value of good food, soil, water, and strong communities. So far, US$45 million has been raised, thanks to the work (and performances!) of festival board members such as Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews.
14. Marvin Gaye: "What's Going On"
With his 1971 album "What's Going On", Marvin Gaye not only raised his voice against the Vietnam war, but addressed problems of his time such as drug abuse and poverty. Despite the seriousness of his album, the title track has a very positive and inspiring message: "You know we've got to find a way; To bring some lovin' here today".
His album achieved remarkable and enduring success, coming in at sixth place on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 greatest Albums of All Time" list in 2003.
15. Concert in celebration of It Takes Two
On March 8, 2014- International Women's Day- a concert in Kampala, Uganda brought 5,000 people together to tackle high teenage pregnancy rates across the country. The concert was in celebration of the launch of It Takes Two , a national youth campaign intended to enable more girls and women across Uganda to access sexual and reproductive health services and information. Alongside international reggae and hip hop artists, two local parliamentarians took the stage to address the crowd and demonstrate their commitment to the cause.
16. Joni Mitchell: "Big Yellow Taxi"
Tackling a different issue, Joni Mitchell's 1970 hit "Big Yellow Taxi" addresses environmental concerns. Describing her thought process, she said, "I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song."
If you're as passionate ending poverty as you are about music, then check out Rewards to see if there's a show you'd like to attend. Global Citizen Rewards wants to thank all our special winners who continue to take action on our website and make our world a better place! Even if you've won tickets before, or are trying to do so, we're constantly updating our page with new shows and Festivals like: Life In Color, ODESZA, Black Sabbath and more! Check out Global Citizen Rewards and the next winner can be you!

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In the long, ongoing battle over equality for all, these songs are the soundtrack.

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