Penny Wong's tweet about Uganda sparks outrage from Aussies trends now
Penny Wong has been blasted for calling out Uganda and its anti-homosexuality bill while remaining silent on controversial issues affecting Australia's other major trading partners.
The Foreign Minister wrote a scathing post on Twitter on Tuesday slamming Uganda for introducing the controversial bill.
'Australia is deeply trouble by Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023,' the post read.
'It is a shocking reversal of human rights, a grave threat to lives and risks decades of health and development progress.
'Australia stands with the people of Uganda, including the LGTBQIA+ community'.
Uganda's 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill imposes a punishment of life imprisonment for same-sex sexual acts, up to 10 years in jail for attempted same-sex sexual acts and the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality'.
Penny Wong (pictured) has sparked outrage over a tweet about gay rights in Uganda, with the Foreign Minister attacked from all sides, including over her ethnicity and sexuality
Foreign Minister Penny Wong's tweet about Uganda (pictured) has been widely condemned
Ms Wong's post drew a raft of backlash with social media users questioning why Ms Wong remained quiet on human rights issues affecting other countries.
The Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese were noticeably silent on India's human rights record when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sydney last week.
'What about when you invited modi here whilst india has one of the worst human rights records in the world for non hindus,' a poster wrote.
'You literally invited him and done whatever he said for the sake of trade deals.'
Since Mr Modi came to power in 2014, India has fallen from 27th to 46th in The Economist magazine's global democracy index and is considered a 'flawed democracy'.
It has also been criticised for religious discrimination against Muslims and a lack of press freedom, which came to a head with a BBC documentary critical of Mr Modi was blocked earlier this year.
Other outraged social media users took aim at Ms Wong saying Australia had its own problems that needed to be addressed.
'We have our own problems here. If you are so concerned for Uganda, please make the trip over and don't bother returning,' one wrote.
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