Australian inquiry probes 40 years of gay hate killings | World News,The Indian Express
The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in New South Wales is the “first of its kind anywhere in the world,” a lawyer assisting the inquiry, Peter Gray, said at the hearing's outset in Sydney.
The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in New South Wales is the “first of its kind anywhere in the world,” a lawyer assisting the inquiry, Peter Gray, said at the hearing’s outset in Sydney.
The acronym in the title refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people.
Responses from Australian society and its institutions including police to violent LGBTQ deaths had been “sadly lacking,” Gray said.
“All these lives, of every one of these people, mattered. They mattered to them, to their loved ones, and ultimately to all of us. And their deaths matter,” Gray said.
“This special commission, by shining a light on everything that is known and can be found out about what happened, will aim to provide some recognition of the truth,” he added.
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