The decision of a Labor councillor to vote in favour of a motion to ban books about same-sex parenting has created a headache for the ALP in western Sydney.
about same-sex families from the shelves of Cumberland City libraries. It was not about targeting any particular group, Hussein insisted. Except it was, and that was how his colleagues in Macquarie Street saw it.
Arts Minister John Graham wielded a big stick. He warned the Labor-controlled council that it could lose funding for its libraries if it does ban the bookThe banning and burning of books has a long, sordid history. Almost 91 years ago to the day – May 10, 1933 – Nazi students burnt books by independent authors, journalists, philosophers and academics.
The motion to axe the same-sex parenting book was the brainchild of the former mayor and conservative independent councillor Steve Christou, who has form in stoking division. Only months earlier, Christou wanted “drag story time” banned from the council’s libraries. Never mind that the council had no plans to host such events. Christou’s ill-informed scaremongering saw hundreds of vocal locals turn up to the council meeting to support his drag story time ban.
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