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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael McGowan

Matt Kean backs push to outlaw gay conversion practices in NSW

A rainbow walkway at Sydney’s Coogee beach
A rainbow walkway at Sydney’s Coogee beach. NSW treasurer Matt Kean says he backs the drive to ban gay conversion practices ‘wholeheartedly’. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

The New South Wales treasurer, Matt Kean, says he “wholeheartedly” supports a push to outlaw gay conversion practices in the state, despite the premier, Dominic Perrottet, refusing to say whether he would support a ban.

As Sydney prepares to play host to the WorldPride festival beginning this week, the powerful crossbench MP Alex Greenwich has made a ban on the practice a condition of his support in the event of a hung parliament after the March state election.

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