Australia's most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 10 January 2014 | Issue 1208 | starobserver.com.au
Equality?
130kdisagree
National
Elias Jahshan & David Alexander
AN online petition with over 130,000 signatures
that calls for Immigration Minister...
More
Australia's most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 10 January 2014 | Issue 1208 | starobserver.com.au
Equality?
130kdisagree
National
Elias Jahshan & David Alexander
AN online petition with over 130,000 signatures
that calls for Immigration Minister Scott
Morrison to grant Brisbane-based gay man
Ali Choudhry a visa to remain in Australia has
become one of the biggest and most successful
community-runpetitionsinAustralianhistory.
Earlier this week Choudhry was looking at a
potential deportation to Pakistan, his country of
birth, after his application for a visa through his
defactorelationshipwithpartnerMatthewHynd
wasrejectedbytheImmigrationDepartment.
Choudhry has no memory of Pakistan and
cannot read or write the local language, as he
wasraisedintheUSAbeforemovingtoAustralia
overfouryearsago.
Since the couple’s plight emerged over the
holiday season, their story has struck a chord
beyond Australia’s LGBTI community. It has
fuelled the marriage equality debate,
Less
