The Victorian premier says the targeting of drag events is the worst of American politics creeping into the state after a Melbourne cafe cancelled a children’s craft and games event hosted by drag queens.
It comes as the founder of the community group where threats of “staking out” the cafe and tracking down performers distanced himself from the comments, labelling them “a major concern”.
The messages appeared on Tuesday night in a chat forum for ‘My Place Australia’, which is a growing network of fringe social media groups that have “I think it’s pretty sad day when the worst of American politics is creeping into our state. And there’s no place for that,” he said. “I’d be very concerned to think that anybody could pay for the personal information of anyone, anyone else, that’s simply wrong,” Andrews said.“My advice is that there are very robust systems and regular audits ... that would find any such breach within the VicRoads system.
Opposition Leader John Pesutto said he wasn’t going to dignify the premier’s remarks with a response.“This cafe should have been able to conduct its activities,” Pesutto said. “I hope that in due course it’s able to proceed. We live in a democracy and people should be free … to engage in the activities they wish to.”
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