Jo is one of the strongest voices for LGBTIQ rights in our parliament, including the rights of transgender and gender diverse members of our community. Jo will continue to fight for equality, including banning gay conversion practices in NSW. 

LGBTIQ+

MEDIA RELEASE

3 June 2026

The Minns Labor Government’s reforms strengthening protections for LGBTQIA+ people have passed NSW Parliament, despite multiple attempts by the Opposition and Greens to delay the laws.

June 03, 2026

LGBTIQ+

MEDIA RELEASE

2 June 2026

Stronger laws to protect the LGBTQIA+ community from hate crimes are being held hostage by the Opposition and Greens who have rejected multiple attempts to pass these laws including a bid to fast track the reforms.

June 02, 2026

LGBTIQ+

Today I speak about equality—hard won, deeply felt and still unfinished.

May 26, 2026

LGBTIQ+

Some of the most important community work happens not in boardrooms or council chambers, but around a table covered in fabric scraps, sequins and half-finished projects — and that is exactly where Ryder Spankie has been showing up, month after month.

May 12, 2026

LGBTIQ+

PRIVATE MEMBERS STATEMENT

I celebrate the forty-eighth Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and reaffirm the Labor Government's unwavering support for that extraordinary festival. 

February 10, 2026

LGBTIQ+

MEDIA RELEASE

5 February 2026

The Minns Labor Government has rejected calls from the Liberal Opposition to defund the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, and called on the NSW Opposition to reverse their position.

February 05, 2026

LGBTIQ+

Heaps Gay is coming back to Marrickville for its twelfth birthday.

November 13, 2025

LGBTIQ+

I had the immense joy of marching in the 2025 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras with Rainbow Families.

March 20, 2025

LGBTIQ+

I acknowledge that the Equality Legislation Amendment Bill (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023 evokes strong views in the community and thank all the Summer Hill constituents who have written to me to express their views, either in support of or in opposition to the bill. 

October 16, 2024

LGBTIQ+

Media Release

NSW Government supports all recommendations of Special Commission into historical LGBTIQ+ hate crimes

 

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Content Warning: 

This media release contains discussion of discrimination, violence and death. 

 

 

The NSW Government is today releasing its formal response to the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) Hate Crimes.

 

September 19, 2024