1. Martine and I did not take TCA for compensation, our compensation was for TCA to apologise and to commit to developing to producing a pamphlet for education for Intersex folk.
We hope that all lobby groups and political parties will now be mindful that if they conduct these types of inciting hatred campaigns, they will be taken to the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and it will cost them thousands of dollars to fight us again.
2. As a environmentalist activist…your comment is not worth the time!
3. At the end of the day TCA was responsible for the advert not the company who produced it and the ad was passed by the advertising regulation body.
4. I have to say that Barry Chipman is naive and recognises that and he was very sincere in his apology, Martine and I would not have accepted his apology if he did not mean it.
As I live in a rural/remote region I agree that we have a real problem with health services that affect people from every walks of life…not just LGBTI folk.
TCA has recognised that they have LGBTI folk that are members in their membership, lets all be grateful that they had the balls to apologise and commit to not re-offend again.
5. Sorry is not good enough, however it is a start and is better than the Tasmanian state Liberal government can do.
The action of TCA has shown that a national lobby group can and has apologised for the damage that they have done.

Do these idiots know that Tasmania has to beg Victoria to send Doctors each year for short 3month stints purely due to this sort of thing. Doctors choose not to go so they can only get doctors in training for a short time.

Next time one of them has a stroke, and there are no specialist services to help them, they can think of the homophobia and why people do not want to work in timber communities.

Make no mistake homophobia cost lives. This company has dammed people to death without knowing it. Bloody idiots!

I would be interested in knowing the name of the company that produced the advertisement.