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ABC dumps ACON -- Governor-General must also sever ties with Equality Australia

Family First Party

If the ABC can recognise the danger of ideological capture, so too must the Governor-General, according to Family First National Director and NSW Legislative Council candidate Lyle Shelton.

 

Welcoming the decision of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to sever ties with radical LGBTIQA+ activist group ACON after concerns about compromised editorial independence, Mr Shelton said the same principle must now be applied to the nation’s highest office.

 

“The women’s rights advocate Sall Grover is right — the ABC’s belated decision is a turning point in reclaiming truth over ideology,” Mr Shelton said.

 

“But if it is wrong for the ABC to be entangled with an activist group, it is even more serious for the Governor-General.”

 

Mr Shelton renewed Family First’s call for Sam Mostyn to immediately cut ties with the radical LGBTIQA+ political lobby group, Equality Australia, where she serves as co-patron alongside the sexualised drag queen and children’s performer Shane Jenek.

 

“The Governor-General’s office must be above politics. Just as the ABC’s relationship with ACON undermined public trust, so too does her association with a radical political lobby group which promotes sexualised and gender fluid performers to children,” he said.

 

“Equality Australia has also been at the forefront of dismantling women’s rights, attacking the freedoms of faith-based schools and advocating harmful medical interventions for gender confused children such as chemical castration and surgical mutilation of their bodies.”

 

Mr Shelton said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must advise the Governor-General to step away from affiliations with political lobby groups, particularly ones that promote contested ideology.

 

“The Prime Minister must ensure the office of Governor-General remains above ideological activism and is worthy of the respect of all Australians,” he said.

 

Mr Shelton said the ABC’s belated decision to dump ACON vindicated long-standing concerns that activist groups had infiltrated public institutions.

 

“The ABC’s entanglement with ACON distorted its reporting — particularly on the harms of experimental child gender treatments and the erosion of women’s and girls’ rights,” he said.

 

Mr Shelton said the inappropriateness of the Governor General patronage of Equality Australia was compounded by its support for legal action against him.

 

“It is extraordinary that an organisation linked to the Governor-General is backing lawfare against a citizen for exercising free speech,” he said.

 

Mr Shelton has been pursued through the courts for six years by two drag queens for criticising their suitability to be role models for children at drag queen story time events, a vehicle for recruiting two-to-eight-year-olds into sexualised and gender fluid queer culture, according to court documents.

 

“Australians expect neutrality — not activism — from public institutions. The ABC has belatedly recognised this. It’s time the Governor General came to the same realisation.”

 

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