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Contents:

• NSW QUIRY TO VTIGATE 40 YEARS OF UNSOLVED SYDNEY GAY HATE ATHS
• NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS
• BONDI RISE MEMORIAL HONOURS VICTIMS OF SYDNEY GAY HATE CRIM DURG 1970S TO 1990S
• SPECIAL MISSN OF INQUIRY TO 40 YEARS OF 'LONELY AND TERRIFYG' GAY HATE ATHS BEGS
• 'UGLY PART OF OUR HISTORY': SYDNEY'S WAVE OF GAY-HATE ATHS EXPOSED
• ATRALIAN QUIRY PROB 40 YEARS OF GAY HATE KILLGS
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• INQUIRY INTO SPECTED GAY HATE CRIM BEGS ATRALIA
• FOUR OTHER GAY-HATE CRIM BEG VTIGATED BY NSW POLICE AFTER STT JOHNSON MURR CHARGE
• SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988

NSW QUIRY TO VTIGATE 40 YEARS OF UNSOLVED SYDNEY GAY HATE ATHS

NSW Premier Domic Perrottet has announced the most extensive quiry to dozens of Sydney gay hate aths that have gone unsolved some s for more than half a pots:Gay hate crim were rampant durg the 1980s and 1990s SydneyA parliamentary mtee prevly found police failed to vtigate many spected gay hate murrsThe upg quiry will have signifint powers, cludg the summong of wnsThe special missn of quiry will be led by Supreme Court judge John Sackar and will vtigate 88 unsolved murrs mted agast LGBTQI people om 1970 to is thought the quiry may lead to new evince beg unvered or brg prevly unreported crim to light. A spate of btal bashgs and murrs Sydney brought terror to the LGBTQI muny for s and police were often not terted vtigatg the gangs targeted gay men parks and toilets, and victims were often found at the bottom of such se was the murr of Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson, who was found ad at the base of a cliff near Manly's North Head.

NSW ERNMENT ANNOUNC QUIRY TO SYDNEY'S UNSOLVED GAY AND TRANSGENR HATE CRIM, MURRS

(Supplied: NSW Police)A judicial quiry was one of the key remendatns of a 2018 parliamentary mtee to gay and transgenr hate crim, which found NSW Police were different to such crim and failed to properly vtigate them at the time. NSW Police tablished Strike Force Parrabell 2013 to vtigate the murrs of 86 gay men and found a third of the killgs were a rult of gay Strike Force found the AIDS crisis fuelled homophobia but nclud was "almost impossible" to intify a "gay-hate bias" om police vtigators workg on the s. The NSW ernment has announced an quiry to btal hat crim mted agast members of Sydney's gay muny over 40 pots:The quiry will have the power to pel wns to prent evinceLiberal MP and gay man Shayne Mallard said was an emotnal dayHe said there was evince of at least 88 gay and transgenr murrsIn July 1989, 25-year-old newsrear Ross Warren disappeared om Sydney's eastern r had been parked on a street near the popular gay beat Marks Park, and his keys were found at the bottom of a cliff closed his se jt three weeks later, whout lotg his is spected to be among the dozens of men murred  Sydney through the 1980s and will form the basis of a judicial quiry announced by the NSW ernment on Wednday.

BONDI RISE MEMORIAL HONOURS VICTIMS OF SYDNEY GAY HATE CRIM DURG 1970S TO 1990S

Commtee Chair Shayne Mallard said there was evince of at least 88 gay and transgenr murrs, though the number was likely higher. "[People the] lbian muny were victims of gay hate murrs as well, ually rerd as domtic vlence. A memorial to victims of gay hate crim has been built at Marks Parks Tamarama.

(Supplied: Marton Dobras-Vcze)"The crim took place at a time when many the muny thought gay and transgenr people were sick, perverted or crimals, " chief executive Nilas Parkhill said. "I'm a gay man myself, I've gone to public office to achieve good, and you don't get many chanc like this. "Details about the ntent of the quiry, cludg s terms of reference, are yet to be month a memorial was unveiled at Marks Park Tamarama, the se of many spected murrs, to acknowledge and honour the victims of gay hate 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 1:20am, updated 4 Nov 2021Thu 4 Nov 2021 at 3:29am.

SPECIAL MISSN OF INQUIRY TO 40 YEARS OF 'LONELY AND TERRIFYG' GAY HATE ATHS BEGS

"It was part of life beg a gay man Sydney at the time, you were aware of the hate crim … uld've been me, rather than the people I know, " Mr Wotherspoon lived through the 70s to 90s, a dark chapter of the Harbour Cy's history where dozens of mal were sla btal fashn. (ABC News: Harriet Tatham)Gay men, or people spected of beg gay, were beaten parks, hurled om cliffs or had vanished om cy's streets s barely probed by law enforcement. The Rise memorial honours those that were targeted transphobic or homophobic attacks.

It was a well-known gay beat— a place men met for sual sex — which Warren floated the ia that Warren had staged his own disappearance. It would take over 10 years before thori lked his spected murr wh many other gay killgs. "The gay newspapers were reportg hate crim but the wir thori didn't pay any attentn … was jt bshed unr the rpet, " Mr Wotherspoon said.

(ABC News: Harriet Tatham)Liberal MP Shayne Mallard chaired the parliamentary mtee rponsible for remendg the legal a victim of a homophobic asslt himself, he said was time for those rponsible to be serve time. "Two 2018 reports — one by peak LGBTQI body ACON and another by NSW Police Strike Force Parrabell — have prevly vtigated some 88 aths between 1976 and 2000 that may have volved gay hate, anti-gay bias or sexualy or genr fewer than half were regard as "unsolved", the two reports reached different views as to the exact Gray said those two important reports were some ways "the culmatn of a long-term buildg-up of ncern many parts of the muny about the levels of vlence, cludg homicis, mted agast LGBTIQ people, pecially the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. "The unsolved matters which were part of those 88 aths will be nsired by the current s fal report last year, a parliamentary mtee found historilly the NSW Police Force "failed s rponsibily" to properly vtigate s of gay and transgenr hate crime, which "unrmed the nfince" of LGBT muni the police force and crimal jtice system.

'UGLY PART OF OUR HISTORY': SYDNEY'S WAVE OF GAY-HATE ATHS EXPOSED

"We also saw that homophobia and transphobia sort of fluencg ernments and ernment servic, and the tolerance for homophobia was really high, " he told the ABC.

An extensive review of 88 spic aths Sydney between 1976 and 2000 has revealed almost a third were the rult of crim volvg spected or nfirmed gay-hate to 10 crimal vtigators have spent three years reviewg the aths, which had been highlighted by rearchers as havg potential gay-hate bias motivatn, or a nnectn wh the LGBTIQ as Strike Force Parrabell, the vtigatn's report, to be ma public on Wednday, has found evince of gay-hate bias or spected bias 27 s while 23 of the aths also rema of the 88 aths were removed om the vtigatn - one bee took place outsi of NSW and the other had no rerds to Rsell's body was found at the base of a cliff at Tamarama.

"Among the unsolved is the ath of John Rsell, whose life was cut short 1989 when he was disvered at the base of a cliff below Marks Park, a known gay beat below the Bondi to Tamarama astal Rsell, 31, was the midst of planng to travel around Atralia when he was found lyg on rocks below the cliff wh extensive juri. Mr Warren's body has never been ath of young mathematician Stt Johnson, whose 1988 ath was also termed to be the rult of a gay hate crime durg an extraordary third ronial qut November last fdg was reaffirmed by Strike Force Force Parrabell was lnched followg a submissn to the Atralian Instute of Crimology 2013, which intified potential gay-hate motivatns 88 spic aths across the wake of the submissn and subsequent media reports, police intified an urgent need to unver evince of homosexual bias among the 88 aths, as well as addrs allegatns of liberate police actn, police participatn gay bashgs and police btaly. “We unrtook this review knowg we n’t change the past, but we n shape our future, " Assistant Commissner Cranll Johnson's ath was termed to have been the rult of a gay hate crime.

ATRALIAN QUIRY PROB 40 YEARS OF GAY HATE KILLGS

"Invtigators classified eight s as gay-hate bias-related crim, and a further 19 spected as gay-hate bias-related crim; five of which rema Olsen, 61, was found floatg face-down Rhcutters Bay. In most of the 23 unsolved aths, such as that of 61-year-old Cyril Olsen who was found floatg face down Rhcutters Bay Augt 1992, vtigators said they had sufficient rmatn to tablish if was, or wasn't a bias those nfirmed to be gay-hate killgs, by both Parrabell and the pennt universy review team, was the murr of Patrick O'Neill at the hands of an 18-year-old male O'Neill was found ad his un on Bayswater Road Kgs Cross 68-year-old had been stabbed numero tim to his cht and throat, before he was vered newspapers and clothg and set alight.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

Raymond Keam was found ad Alison Park, Randwick January Randall Walsh, then 18, had left the Kgs Cross apartment after engagg nsensual sex wh Mr O'Neill, only to return wh a pair of scissors he would e to flict the vic subsequent police terviews Walsh ma repeated rogatory ments about homosexuals, while also acknowledgg nfn over his own was nvicted of manslghter and sentenced to 12 years jail. LoadgOther aths reviewed clu Richard Johnson, who was found near the toilet block of Alexandria Park January 1990 and Raymond Keam, 44, who was found Alison Park, Randwick January Force Parrabell found 34 s wh no evince of gay-hate bias crime, wh four still yet to be solved.

Insufficient rmatn meant the 25 remag s uld not be termed as eher gay-hate related or not, 14 of which are still the 63 solved s, which a domant motivatn uld be termed, ne were classified as gay-hate crim, six were classified as motivated by paedophile-bias, 32 were found to be motivated by robbery, while 14 s attracted other motivatns. "Neher Strike Force Parrabell or the Flrs Universy rearchers found evince of stutnal anti-gay police bias their reviews. "The report ma twelve remendatns, cludg the need for revised bias crime ditor asssment tools; ongog ethil and cultural trag to specifilly clu LGBTIQ experienc and ntued improvements to electronic se file twelve will be implemented by NSW Police Commissner Mick month HIV preventn group ACON released s own report to "gay and transgenr prejudice killgs NSW the late 20th century, " which remend a formal apology by NSW Police to the LGBTI muny for "the aquate or slow rpons to vlence throughout this perd" is unrstood Assistant Commissner Cranll tends to brief Commissner Fuller about the prospect of an apology.

INQUIRY INTO SPECTED GAY HATE CRIM BEGS ATRALIA

CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — A ernment quiry began hearg evince on Wednday of unsolved aths rultg om gay hate crim over four s Atralia’s most populo state where police were notorly different to such Special Commissn of Inquiry to LGBTIQ Hate Crim New South Wal is the “first of s kd anywhere the world, ” a lawyer assistg the quiry, Peter Gray, said at the hearg’s outset Sydney. The acronym the tle refers to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer people.

Vlence agast gay men Sydney was particularly prevalent om the mid-1980s until the early 1990s due to creased hostily and fear stemmg om the AIDS epimic, a prev report by an HIV support group, ACON, half of the 88 “gay hate” and “anti-gay bias” aths New South Wal between 1976 and 2000 occurred that perd, the report clu Stt Johnson, a 27-year-old Los Angel-born mathematician whose fatal fall om a Sydney clifftop 1988 was ially dismissed by police as suici. Atralian attus toward LGBTQ people changed rapidly the late 20th 1958, then-New South Wal Police Commissner Col Delaney scribed homosexualy as the “greatt social menace” state crimalized gay sex 1984 but allowed a so-lled “gay panic fense” to charg of murr and other vlent crim until 2014.

FOUR OTHER GAY-HATE CRIM BEG VTIGATED BY NSW POLICE AFTER STT JOHNSON MURR CHARGE

Also known as the “homosexual advance fense, ” a crimal uld e the victim makg a sexual approach as a partial fense.

A parliamentary quiry then wined the timeame by examg what scribed as “gay and transgenr hate crim” between 1970 and 2010. That quiry found the police force “failed s rponsibili to properly vtigate s of historil gay and transgenr hate crime, ” unrmg LGTBQ nfince the crimal jtice quiry last year remend the tablishment of the current judicial quiry wh powers to force wns to new quiry, led by New South Wal Supreme Court Jtice John Sackar, will re-exame the 86 aths durg the 24-year wdow and make s own termatn about which on rema quiry has also examed New South Wal fil of more than 700 unsolved murrs and more than 500 missg persons om 1970 until 2010 for potential gay hate and anti-gay bias quiry mt report by June 30 next year. We need to hear om anyone who n help do that, ” he have ma efforts recent years to mend relatns wh the LGTBQ apologized 2016 for vlently arrtg and beatg 53 activists who marched at Sydney’s first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 1978.

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988

Gay rights mpaigners have said that the 1980s vlence toward LGBTQI people the Atralian cy of Sydney was "almost seen as a sport" and that homophobia was rife the early days of the HIV epimic.

A mtee of lawmakers 2021 said the police New South Wal had failed to vtigate spected s of gay and transgenr hate crim. But by 2010, Atralia had amend more than 70 piec of legislatn to remove discrimatn between lbian and gay upl. Meanwhile, a man nvicted of the murr of a gay Amerin man has had his nvictn overturned, after judg accepted that he should be able to whdraw his guilty plea.