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28 May 2018

Pursuing Justice for past gay & trans hate crimes in NSW with ACON

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ACON is New South Wales’s leading LGBTI health organisation. It’s latest report, ‘In Pursuit of Truth and Justice: Documenting Gay and Transgender Prejudice Killings in NSW in the Late 20th Century’ shines a light on the suspected anti-gay homicides that occurred in NSW from the 1970s to the early 1990s.

The report explores the factors that enabled a culture of anti-gay violence to thrive in NSW during this period. The report also brings to the fore the failures in the criminal justice system at the time and highlights the lasting effects these shortcomings have had on members of the LGBT community.

Importantly, the report presents a series of recommendations aimed at achieving justice and healing for victims and survivors, enhancing current responses to hate crimes and strengthening ongoing efforts in violence prevention.

Now on The Informer, Dean Arcuri & Rachel Tyler Jones speak with ACON’s safety inclusion and historic injustice project manager Michael Atkinson to find out more about the report, and what steps we can take to not only heal the wounds of the past, but get some justice as well.

You can find a link to the full report here : https://www.acon.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/In-Pursuit-of-Truth-and-Justice-Report-FINAL-220518.pdf

The Bondi Memorial mentioned in the interview honours & remembers those lost to gay and trans hate violence, and you can find out more about it or donate via www.bondimemorial.com.au

This segment aired on The Informer on JOY 94.9 on 28^th May 2018

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