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One Nation NSW leader, Mark Latham MLC, has been accused of misusing parliamentary privilege to launch an attack on Sydney gay activist Garry Burns. In …

The pack, which was funded and compiled by anti-trans lobby group Binary Australia, encourages parents to quiz schools over which bathrooms trans students use and warns against “indoctrination programs” that use “politically correct ‘code’ words like ‘anti-bullying'”.

NSW Police told the inquiry that despite internal efforts, “homophobic or transphobic sentiments have not been eliminated entirely from the force, or from society more generally”.

The inquiry was announced in September to investigate LGBTI hate crimes which took place between 1970 and 2010.

“The focus of many of these violent attacks was in, and around, Marks Park. This memorial will help acknowledge and heal the trauma these events have caused for the families of the victims as well as the LGBTI community”

“This inquiry is overdue. For the heartbroken friends and family members of these individuals, who were targeted and murdered, it has been a decades long journey for justice and redress.”

A packed public gallery burst into applause as the NSW Government apologised to the 78ers.

Those who took part in the very first Sydney Mardi Gras parade in 1978, known as the “78ers”, say it’s time for NSW police to say sorry for their mistreatment and violence at the time.

However, Baird continues to back decision to restrict when the film can be shown in schools.

Coogee MP adds voice to growing chorus of politicians seeking an official admission that policing at the 1978 march was heavy-handed and arrests unnecessary.