The Minns government has offered an unconditional apology to victims, survivors, families and the LGBTQ community for the way NSW authorities handled gay hate crimes over a four-decade period, backing all 19 recommendations handed down by the world-first commission of inquiry.
Nearly 10 months after NSW Supreme Court Justice John Sackar presented his final, nearly 3500-page report into unsolved suspected murders of members of the LGBTQ communities in NSW between 1970 and 2010, the government said the inquiry showed major shortfalls in the way those deaths had been dealt with.
Commissioned by the previous Coalition government in 2022 after years of advocacy by independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, the Sackar inquiry considered 32 cases in detail, finding in 25 instances discrimination was likely to have been a factor.
The government supported all 19 recommendations made by the special commission, …