Last week GetUp falsely accused a Melbourne Liberal MP of supporting “gay conversion therapy” without evidence, without checking and without care. Journalists questioning the “talking points” were urged to ask the MP. Getting others to do your dirty work is as old as spreading salacious gossip in a bar and waiting for someone to be asked publicly about the smear.
Scott Morrison was also asked about gay conversion therapy which he rejected and said it was a state health matter which it was.
Coincidentally Labor’s Mark Dreyfus announced Labor’s “policy” of federally opposing gay conversion therapy and said the Prime Minister’s response was a “cop out”. GetUp, under threat of legal action, has removed the reference but the smear is out there.
Morrison was a victim of anti-Adani protesters and union activists suggesting his hand raised in prayer on Easter Sunday was a Nazi salute and working for the mine would be like working for the Nazis. No slur bad enough and no lie big enough for some running under cover of our democratic protections.
