“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”.
Victorian Labor has reached out to Melbourne’s pre-existing pride festival Midsumma to see if they can play a role in the development of the proposed street party.
Responding to a survey, Labor didn’t go far enough to end religious discrimination in public services, while the Opposition’s silence on many of the issues put forward to them was “deafening”.
“Many of those disappointments were particularly poignant, because they were engineered by my brother Tony Abbott.”
Over the weekend a motion condemning “radical gender ideology” was unanimously supported at the party’s state conference.
