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Penny Wong gives $3.5M of our money as 'a start' to fund LGBTQ organisations in the Asia-Pacific

"Feel safe".

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-05/australia-needs-to-do-more-for-lgbtq-people-feel-safe-loved/102052740

 

This week, Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced at Sydney's WorldPride Human Rights Conference that Australia would spend $3.5 million as "a start" to support organisations advocating for LGBTQ rights in the Asia-Pacific.

"As amazing as the announcement is, we still have so much work to do in our own backyard," said Ben Woodbury, a gay man who grew up in Windsor, in Sydney's north-west.

"Money should be spent here making this country safe, so that anyone of any sexuality from any community feels they can be who they are without fear of discrimination."

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