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Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones is the assistant treasurer and federal minister for financial services.

Stephen Jones, the shadow assistant treasurer, with Paddy. “When people ask if he’s gay or trans, he just tells them he’s Paddy, just Paddy.”

As a father, my duty was to Paddy. As an MP, it was to all families with LGBTQI kids

The federal shadow assistant treasurer reflects on his speech to Parliament amid the religious discrimination debate. “The fears I hold for Paddy are exactly the same as for the parents of a Muslim child who worry every time their daughter walks to the corner shop wearing a hijab.”

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