SPECIAL OFFER

FOR FAIRFAX READERS

Order a copy for $16.99 (usually $22.99)

Includes free postage within Australia

 

 

To read every article the Australian has published on Safe Schools is to induce nausea. This isn’t even a comment on the content, just the sheer volume … And yet, across this entire period, the Australian – self-appointed guardian of the safety of children – spoke to not a single school-aged LGBTIQ youth. Not even one. Later, queer teenagers who followed the Safe Schools saga told me the dynamic felt familiar. At school, it’s known as bullying. In journalism, it’s called a beat-up. 

—Benjamin Law, Moral Panic 101