Thursday, 29 August 2024

LGBTIQA+ community

Michael GALEA (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (10:12): I rise to reaffirm the unwavering support of the Allan Labor government for our state’s LGBTIQA+ community. As a co-chair of the tenacious Minister Shing’s ministerial taskforce working groups on health and wellbeing and on justice, I have the great privilege of hearing firsthand from the passionate and diverse voices of our community. I have come to know all the more the importance of high-quality data so that we can address the community’s challenges as effectively and as efficiently as possible. This government will always stand with LGBTIQA+ Victorians and do what we can to support the community to prosper as part of our broader Victorian community. To those community members, I say: you matter, and you deserve to have your voice counted.