Posts tagged Penny Wong

Around two decades after she entered Parliament, Senator Penny Wong was on Monday sworn in as Australia’s new foreign minister, making her one of the …

Australians on Saturday voted decisively against wedge politics as Labor’s Anthony Albanese claimed victory, defeating Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Liberal party.  National LGBTQI advocacy …

A 2015 article began with the headline “Here’s Why Penny Wong Will Never Be Prime Minister.” The Out Labor Senator and Shadow foreign minister had …

Former managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle Shelton has no love lost for the LGBTQI community.  Trigger Warning: This story has details of …

Canberra is getting ready for the third annual YES!Fest, which has quickly become one of Australia’s most exciting annual LGBTIQ events. YES!Fest creative director DANNY …

The government indicated last year that it would order the review after Prime Minister Scott Morrison failed to meet his own deadline for removing the exemptions by the end of 2018.

“His overnight comments weren’t that different from how he has always behaved. There was already enough evidence to ban him which is why the department had already recommended he be banned,” said Labor MP Tony Burke.

“Let’s be clear about what has happened,” Senator Penny Wong said of the backflip. “Some right wing commentators have got angry about it so the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party decided to change their mind.”

“Nobody should have to hide themselves to survive.”

The OSCE report describes the systematic harassment, abuse, detention, torture, disappearance, rape, murder, and execution of LGBTI citizens in the Chechen Republic, a federal subject of Russia, since December 2016.