00:03Pride in protest has the Mardi Gras board in its sights.
00:07Two of its members, Damian Nguyen and Luna Chu, were elected in December.
00:11Now, they've been stood down.
00:13Luna and I have ran as Mardi Gras board candidates explicitly on the politics of transgender rights,
00:20on the politics of ending police violence, and on the politics of cutting ties with genocide complicity.
00:25And so an attack on us is a representative of an attack on those politics and those ideals.
00:30They're alleging a growing pattern of transphobia from the board.
00:33I have been locked out of my emails, misgendered and humiliated in front of board directors.
00:40But the board says the decision came after multiple warnings and a formal censure,
00:45amid concerns the pair were in breach of their obligations under the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission.
00:51The actual stand down had nothing to do with other issues.
00:54It was entirely about directors meeting their obligations under ACNC Standard 5.
00:59Pride in protest itself has been petitioning to remove the Mardi Gras co-chairs and chief executive.
01:05They're antagonising us on social media, who are making it harder for us to do our jobs.
01:11And it's becoming very harmful, it's abusive and it's not okay.
01:15And there are concerns the dispute could jeopardise funding for Mardi Gras itself.
01:20So if we want to become an organisation that's more focused on partisan issues,
01:25that would be considerable drift from our charitable obligations.
01:30And we would risk losing funding.
01:32Wherever there are people or groups or activities or breaches of governance
01:37that undermine the integrity of that organisation, they should be examined.
01:40The Mardi Gras Board and its two dismissed directors now have 28 days to try and mediate a resolution.
01:47Yeah.
01:51The Mardi Gras Board.
01:52Didn't know that right now.
01:52Then, who is facing the House or которое you must stand right away?
01:53All that will agree.
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