Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1021 Wednesday 12 May 2010
more than just a newspaper
Rights
advocate
mournedANI LAMONT
Gay and lesbian rights advocates have
mourned the death of former NSW Attorney...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1021 Wednesday 12 May 2010
more than just a newspaper
Rights
advocate
mournedANI LAMONT
Gay and lesbian rights advocates have
mourned the death of former NSW Attorney
General Jeffrey Shaw, a man with a reformist
agenda dedicated to the rights of same-sex
couples.
Shaw died yesterday morning, aged 60,
frompneumoniacomplications.
Appointed attorney general in 1995, he
is remembered as an activist committed to
pushing through a raft of legislative changes
withahumanrightsbent.
To the GLBT community he will be
rememberedforthefirststepstowardssamesexrelationshiprecognition,andprotections
fortransgenderpeople.
“He had an extraordinary commitment
to social justice, something you hope for
in an attorney general but don’t often see,”
former NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
convenorStevieClaytonsaid.
In 1996 Shaw widened the scope of
anti-discrimination legislation to include
transgender people and ma
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