‘Meet Dom Perrottet – the conservative Catholic and father-of-six who will be NSW’s next Premier”, read a headline on the ABC, as if gunning to be premier was akin to finding a match on a dating website. It was the same story elsewhere: the nation’s other public broadcaster, the SBS, known for airing multicultural and diverse viewpoints, posed the question: “Devout Catholic and vocal conservative: Who is NSW’s new premier Dominic Perrottet?” The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney’s longest-running tabloid, meanwhile, conjured up this doozy: “NSW must do better”.
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Australia’s anti-Catholic bigotry
‘meet dom perrottet – the conservative catholic and father-of-six who will be nsw’s next premier”, read a headline on the abc, as if gunning...
Cronan Yu
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