By: Nick Connor

Nick Connor — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:21:48 +0000

It’s important to remember how oppressive the Joh government in Queensland was, and to realise that this oppression cost lives. It should also be noted that those of us living in Queensland were revisited by a doggedly anti-gay government recently under Newman and Springborg, and that the return of this homophobic mob remains a very real prospect. Newman/Springborg also refused to fund QuAC (and in fact stripped it of the funding it already had) and broke the partnership response to the epidemic which had served Australia so well, instead creating the Government HIV Foundation, which persists to this day. The sooner we get rid of the HIV Foundation and return to a fully-funded AIDS Council, the better off we will all be.

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By: Nick Connor