by SEAN BURKE – ONE of Australia’s greatest tennis champions, Margaret Court, has been characterised on national television this week as a second-class human and “delusional Jesus freak”. Melbourne newspaper columnist Justin Smith, who writes for News Ltd and broadcasts on Fairfax/Nine…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – NORMALLY it’s conservative Christians such as Australia’s rugby union player Israel Folau and the tennis great Margaret Court who are attacked for being transphobic. Traditionally, it has been these people threatened with legal action when they argue that…
THE vitriolic, personal attacks on the tennis great Margaret Court provide the most recent example of the poisonous impact of cancel culture as does the perennial complaint by black activists that the First Fleet’s arrival celebrated on Australia Day heralds the beginning of Aboriginal genocide. Even “It’s your ABC” has gone to the dark side describing the nation’s birth as invasion day.
THE awarding of Australia’s highest honour to tennis legend Margaret Court has been mired in controversy after other recipients protested her inclusion over her stance towards same-sex marriage. Court, one of the world’s most accomplished tennis players, was yesterday elevated from her previous appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) to a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
GOVERNMENT funding has been withheld from a Christian organisation because its views on marriage are deemed non-inclusive. The grant application from Victory Life Church to assist purchase a refrigerated truck to distribute food to Perth’s homeless was rejected due the views of its founder, tennis great Margaret Court.
