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Amanda Meade

Child’s play: Alex Antic’s moral crusade against the ABC caught out by the clock

Liberal Senator Alex Antic in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, November 23, 2022. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING
Mistaking an adult program about sexuality for a kids show, Liberal senator Alex Antic should do more research before his next moral crusade. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Liberal senator Alex Antic was perturbed when he found a program on ABC Kids which was about “confronting sexuality in school in very different ways”.

It was proof that the ABC is a “publicly funded propaganda outfit” which is out of step with what he calls “normal Australia”. After all, this is the same South Australian senator who accused the ABC of “grooming children” when performer Courtney Act read a book on Play School.

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