Comments on: Victorian Government reveals new LGBTI Taskforce to be led by trans* advocate Brenda Appleton /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:12:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: helen /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551#comment-478182 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:12:06 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=140551#comment-478182 From the comments on this thread

Jason Ball looks like a clear winner for Higgins now

Labour and Liberal have really lost their way

You take the electorate for granted and the next election will be an armageddon

TIME FOR CHANGE

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By: Midsumma Sham /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551#comment-477599 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:16:33 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=140551#comment-477599 What a sham. Brenda has been hiding under a rock. No where to be seen, doing nothing and getting paid for it.

1.2 million for LGBTI projects? Where has this money gone? Another sham.

This ALP Government are all about publicity and are like almost all politicians, human scum.

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By: helen /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551#comment-477504 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 07:13:36 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=140551#comment-477504 Yes…

Sally Goldner is a champion

Thank Goodness that idiot Tim Wilson isn’t anywhere near the government and his overpaid gig to discriminate on ideological grounds for his various lobby groups

That princess is a stain on human rights

Melbourne is now a very progressive city .

Gay Inc should cool it with their radical politics

Well done Martin Foley and your great initiative

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By: Paul /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551#comment-476908 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 06:29:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=140551#comment-476908 What happened to LGBTI rights in the Victorian Labor manifesto?

Labor Election Promises such as:

* Repeal Section 19A on HIV of the Crimes Act 1958; (DONE)
* Adoption equality within the Adoption Act 1984; (No bill introduced)
* Equal Opportunity Reforms to abolish religious exemptions; (no bill introduced)
* Relationship Act 2007 reforms to recognise interstate and overseas same-sex unions/marriages (and surprise surprise no bill introduced)

But hey this is way too hard for a Labor government hey!

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By: Bill /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551#comment-476720 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:57:57 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=140551#comment-476720 In reply to Bill.

I mean no disrespect to those going on the “Tasforce”, I am sure some good people are on it. When I spoke of inner city gay ghettos, I mean places that are generally easier to live then some of the rural parts of Victoria. But there is a lack of represenation of rural areas. The biggest funders of homophobia and transphobia, is the Victorian government, who spends millions advertising in rural areas more often then not, in papers that publish homophobic or transphobic editorials. We would not accept this if it was was about race, so we should not accept the government as being genuine when rural press is the lone paper in country areas and publishes hate material about people based on their sexuality etc.

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By: Bill /news/national-news/victoria-news/victorian-government-reveals-new-lgbti-taskforce-to-be-led-by-trans-advocate-brenda-appleton/140551#comment-476684 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:27:13 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=140551#comment-476684 A Labor party stacked “Tarskforce”, from the inner city gay ghettos is not exactly a work of equality. This is a waisted opportunity, a spin from a party in fear of the Greens. Rural people experiencing homophobia or transphobia have been dumped, with just 1.2. Million expected for all of regional Victoria, or in other words the cost of one or two hate crimes. Why such a lack of people who live in rural Victoria?

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