"The disconnect between state and federal laws on this issue needs to be resolved federally so LGBTQIA+ students and teachers can exist in all Australian schools without fear of discrimination, harassment or exclusion." #auspol 3/3

"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised to protect LGBTQIA+ students and teachers in religious schools during the 2022 election campaign. His Labor government is yet to implement these changes." #auspol 2/3

"The loudest voices claiming to “defend” us are the same voices who have actively supported, or been silent during, the policies that fill prisons with abused, poor, and marginalised women in the first place." 2/2

It was definitely weird when I was a staffer for the Rudd and Gillard Governments and I'd walk past the National Party Whip's office on the way to the Senate chamber and see my grandfather's name was on the scroll of past National/Country Party Senators! But yes, I wish I had the chance.

He died a few months after I was born, so I never got the chance to question him about his participation in these events (which I would describe as profoundly anti-democratic). But the vast majority of my family remain Conservative, and continue to defend his actions to this day.

"They often were involuntarily outed, lost their jobs, and were excluded from their families. They may have lost their relationships. Many were exiled interstate. Some of them took their own lives." 2/2