Australians pride ourselves on a fair go — but there’s still a lot of people who fall through the cracks.
In 2025, LGBTIQA+ people still face discrimination in work, in education and in accessing the services they need. We still face higher rates of mental ill health, homelessness and poverty.
But all the major parties are offering is more photo opps while they erode our rights behind closed doors. You can’t trust Labor and the LNP to defend LGBTIQA+ people when we’re under attack.
Our rights are non-negotiable. We need to demand more than silence while we’re going backwards.
The Greens will vote for the LGBTIQA+ community, every vote, every time. Our community deserves representatives who’ll turn up — not just for photos.
The Greens have already:
- Ensured LGBTIQA+ people are counted in the next Census
- Funded grassroots LGBTIQA+ arts organisations and campaigns across Brisbane
- Delivered Open Door Youth Service’s first ever acute support service for trans young people.
Next we will:
- Let LGBTIQA+ families access IVF through Medicare
- Remove out-of-pocket costs for abortion care, contraception and PrEP/PeP
- Make gender-affirming care free and universally accessible
- Implement the ALRC recommendations to end discrimination against staff and students on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or lifestyle in religious-run schools.
- Appoint an LGBTIQA+ Human Rights Commissioner to publicly advocate for LGBTIQA+ rights and rectify a historic weakness in Australia's human rights framework.
- Abolish the “gay blood ban” by working with Lifeblood and the Red Cross to remove all remaining discriminatory barriers to donating blood.
- Start a national government inquiry into the “ex-gay” and “ex-trans” conversion movements to understand the prevalence of underground practices and the impacts on LGBTIQA+ Australians, especially young people.
- Rethink Australia’s approach internationally — from immigration and refugee processing to international aid — to make sure LGBTIQA+ people facing discrimination in their home country get the help they need and can migrate to Australia quickly, safely and affordably if they want to.
- Remedy historic injustices faced by LGBTIQA+ defence force veterans with a redress scheme for veterans harmed by hazing, abuse and discrimination.