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Choose carefully words on Safe Schools: PM

Malcolm Turnbull has addressed comments made by a coalition backbencher about the Safe Schools program.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull has addressed comments by a coalition backbencher about the Safe Schools program. (AAP)

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged government backbenchers opposed to a gay and lesbian-focused schools program to choose their words carefully.

Mr Turnbull was asked about the comments of Nationals MP George Christensen who has likened the Safe Schools program to child sexual grooming.

"I encourage everybody who is discussing these issues to do so in very measured language - and to consider very carefully the impact of the words they use on young people and on their families," he told reporters in Canberra on Friday.


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