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Turnbull orders review of LGBTI Safe Schools program

From the Safe Schools website. (http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au)
From the Safe Schools website. (http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au) Source: From the Safe Schools website. (http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au)

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is facing pressure from some of his own M-Ps to withdraw Commonwealth funding from a national program designed to help students with L-G-B-T-I-Q* matters. At the same time, Mr Turnbull has been accused of succumbing to conservative backbenchers by commissioning a review into the operation of the eight-million-dollar Safe-Schools program.


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By Naomi Selvaratnam, Sima Tsyskin

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is facing pressure from some of his own M-Ps to withdraw Commonwealth funding from a national program designed to help students with L-G-B-T-I-Q* matters. At the same time, Mr Turnbull has been accused of succumbing to conservative backbenchers by commissioning a review into the operation of the eight-million-dollar Safe-Schools program.



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