The following piece is a response to an Op-ed by Greg Sheridan in The Australian.
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Whilst The Australian‘s Greg Sheridan was enjoying dinner with Tony Abbott in Lygon St the other night, secure in the knowledge that the government wasn’t busy making judgments about their private lives and declaring them some kind of second-rate arrangement, a terrible thing occurred.
Some young gay people and their friends – the very people that Greg, Tony and other senior politicians were in fact determined for no readily-identifiable reason to insist that the government treat as second-class citizens – appeared in their restaurant and called Tony a bigot! In his own private time! Imposing their political views on Tony’s private life! It makes you as angry as when you first learned that French peasants had rudely interrupted Marie Antoinette with their entirely justified grievances as she sat down to some delicious cake – which she’d even been kind enough to offer them first.