Green Party Promises To Challenge Homophobia In Australia In New Election Pledge

The three  main political parties in Australia have shown how far they’ve progressed in the last four years concerning LGBT rights their new election pledges. Marking a big step forward for a country that has seen it’s government do little to combat homophobia, the three parties have all put forward very different policies.

For the Labor party the issue is gay adoption with the party promising to reopen the debate via a Parliamentary inquiry, for the Liberals it’s about improving the treatment of transgender inmates in prison., whilst the Green’s policy sees a promise of spending $300,000 on anti-homophobia campaigns in state schools.

Speaking about the announcement of these policies, Rodney Croome who is the spokeman for the Gay and Lesbian Rights Group in Tasmania said the group would never act to endorse one party, but that the announcement has shown

“…is that all three parties have moved forward in their policies and their objectives and their programs from where they were in 2006.”

Whilst these announcements are positive, it is important to recognise that many election pledges make it to reality, something that really need to happen in Australia, particularly concerning homophobia with Croome indicating that recent surveys showed Tasmania is still the most homophobic Australian state.