Penny Wong gives $3.5M of our money as 'a start' to fund LGBTQ organisations in the Asia-Pacific
Sunday, 05 March 2023
"Feel safe".
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."