Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1055 Wednesday 12 January 2011
Health body’s cash crisisANDIE NOONAN
Australia’s National LGBTI Health
Alliance – which has just added an ‘I’
to its name to include...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1055 Wednesday 12 January 2011
Health body’s cash crisisANDIE NOONAN
Australia’s National LGBTI Health
Alliance – which has just added an ‘I’
to its name to include intersex people –
faces a make or break year in 2011, with
only months before its core funding runs
out.
The peak Australian GLBTI health
organisation, made up of more than
100 member organisations around the
country, will no longer be able to afford
itslonefull-timestaffmemberandcasual
administrative assistant, resigning it to a
completelyvolunteerorganisation.
National LGBTI Health Alliance
executive director Gabi Rosenstreich
said the organisation needs critical core
funding to survive and called on the
GillardGovernmenttohelpthestruggling
body in the same way as other minority
community organisations receive a leg
up.
“Where we’re at is very up in the air,”
RosenstreichtoldtheStarObserver.
“We are very fortunate that one of our
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