Bettina Arndt's Order of Australia honour referred to awards council for review
Bettina Arndt’s Order of Australia has been referred to the independent body that hands out the awards amid growing calls for the controversial sex therapist and writer to be stripped of the honour.
Arndt was criticised last week after she congratulated a Queensland detective who said police would keep an “open mind” in a case where a man allegedly killed his wife and three children by dousing them with petrol and setting them alight.
On Monday the office of the governor general, David Hurley, confirmed he had referred correspondence over Arndt’s award to the Council of the Order of Australia.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/24/bettina-arndts-order-of-australia-referred-to-awards-council-for-review.
Arndt was criticised last week after she congratulated a Queensland detective who said police would keep an “open mind” in a case where a man allegedly killed his wife and three children by dousing them with petrol and setting them alight.
On Monday the office of the governor general, David Hurley, confirmed he had referred correspondence over Arndt’s award to the Council of the Order of Australia.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/24/bettina-arndts-order-of-australia-referred-to-awards-council-for-review.
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