Drag Race star Courtney Act has slammed Liberal senator Alex Antic for accusing her of grooming children. On 7 November, Antic accused ABC’s Play School and the former The Bi Life host of the heinous act after the latter read a story about dressing up. “Why is the ABC grooming children with this sort of adult content?” the Liberal political official said during a Senate meeting.
Antic’s outlandish claim was immediately refuted by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young who described his statement as “deeply, deeply offensive.” (per The Guardian). “Grooming is a really serious matter.
It is not for being played with by conservative senators to make headlines,” she added. ABC’s managing director David Anderson echoed similar sentiments at the time, stating: “We are not grooming Australian children.
What were are doing, that is about dress up.” Anderson and Hanson-Young weren’t the only individuals to slam Antic’s accusations.