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The poster attracted nationwide media coverage and provoked a response from opposition leader Bill Shorten. That poster, reportedly up in Melbourne, also said "Stop The Fags" and featured a drawing of a child seemingly being menaced by adults wielding rainbow belts. Last week a different poster with online Neo-Nazi origins attracted widespread attention. His candidacy was endorsed by former tennis player and anti-gay pastor Margaret Court. Neo-Nazi group Antipodean Resistance claimed on Twitter to be behind the posters, and said its source was an article published in Quadrant journal by legal academic Augusto Zimmerman, who is a fellow at the International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family.Įarlier this year, Zimmerman was floated by some conservatives as a possible replacement for Gillian Triggs as president of the Australian Human Rights Commissioner. The claims made on the poster are not supported by consensus research about the the wellbeing of children raised by same-sex couples.Ĭomprehensive research reviews from, among others, the government agency Australian Institute of Family Studies and Columbia Law School, have found there is no significant difference in wellbeing between the children of same-sex parents and opposite-sex parents. "The presumption that that sentiment would be welcome in the public space right now is appalling."īuzzFeed News has been sent several shots of the new poster seen in Melbourne from multiple sources. "I wasn't shocked - I was living in Abbotsford when there were "AIDS cures fags" stickers everywhere - but it made me angry," she said. Berkeley tore it down after taking a photograph of it. Melbourne woman Alice Berkeley told BuzzFeed News she had spotted a new poster, which made similar claims, at a tram stop outside the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the CBD on Sunday morning.īuzzFeed News has chosen to blur the content of the poster. Last Monday, a single picture posted on Twitter of a different poster saying Stop The Fags went viral and attracted widespread condemnation from Australian political leaders. It comes in the midst of a heated debate in Australia over same-sex marriage, LGBTI rights, and LGBTI people more broadly, prompted by the government's national postal survey on the issue. A Neo-Nazi group claims to have put up shocking anti-gay posters around the Melbourne CBD over the weekend to argue against same-sex marriage.