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  • Bob Carr signing the pledge
    Carr commits Labor to LGBTI rights

    The Labor Party has promised to uphold LGBTI rights in Australia’s foreign affairs after Foreign Minister Bob Carr signed a pledge on behalf of the party this week. The move by Labor comes a fortnight after Greens...

    • Posted 3 months ago
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    LGBTI rights on Australia’s agenda for Saint Petersburg G-20

    Foreign Minister Bob Carr will raise Australia’s opposition to Russia’s “homosexual propaganda” law with President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Saint Petersburg. Despite recently announcing LGBTI rights would be a “core foreign policy priority” for...

    • Posted 3 months ago
  • Corey Irlam
    Advocacy groups release national LGBTI election survey

    LGBTI advocacy groups have distributed a survey to the major political parties to determine their positions on a wide range of issues in the lead up to the federal election. Developed by the Victorian Gay and Lesbian...

    • Posted 4 months ago
  • MarkDreyfus
    Dreyfus confirms: LGBTI refugees bound for Papua

    Australia’s chief law officer has refused to discuss anti-gay laws in Asia-Pacific nations bound to accept asylum seekers less than a fortnight after the federal government claimed it would do more to combat LGBTI human rights abuses...

    • Posted 4 months ago
  • Justin-Koonin1
    GLRL: From Russia, and PNG, with (no) love

    Justin Koonin is a co-convenor of the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby.   On July 19, Foreign Minister Bob Carr issued a statement affirming the federal government’s commitment to making LGBTI rights a core priority for...

    • Posted 4 months ago
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    OPINION: A sick joke

    The following are Tweets from the account of Foreign Minister Bob Carr: “Meeting with members of #LGBTI community on making LGBTI rights a core foreign policy priority of Rudd Government” “I promise to stand up against homophobia, transphobia...

    • Posted 5 months ago
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    ‘PNG solution’ places LGBTI asylum seekers in limbo

    The federal government’s newly announced policy to transfer all asylum seekers arriving by boat to Papua New Guinea (PNG) for permanent resettlement has come under immense criticism, with growing fears LGBTI asylum seekers could be put at...

    • Posted 5 months ago