“How is it that we have a Prime Minister who potentially thinks gay people go to hell? Or a former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who fought so hard against marriage equality despite having a lesbian sister?”
“I keep getting treated like I’m a bad gay because I’m voting Liberal, but more people should vote with their heads and not their hearts, and really think about who they want representing Australia’s future.”
“Our parliament doesn’t reflect the diversity of Australians. [We need more] women, people of colour, and LGBTI people.”
GetUp has called on Andrews to publicly condemn the practice.
“I just want the Liberal Party to understand that, after everything they’ve done against LGBTI people for so many years, not everyone in the community welcomes them to Pride.”
In the lead up to the federal election the Coalition will push culture war buttons marked “religious freedom”, “gender fluidity”, and “Safe Schools” more than ever.
A law allowing intersex people to identify themselves as a third gender on official documents has gone into effect.
“Now that the parliamentary party has been called together, they will elect a new leadership team – I will not be a candidate for the position of leader.”
O’Dwyer added that “it’s not who we are as Liberals”.
Re-elected premier Daniel Andrews declared Victorian Labor to be “the most progressive government in the nation”.
