On Sky News’ The Bolt Report on
Monday, presenter Andrew Bolt asked social commentator Bettina Arndt
her opinion on the fact French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is
married to a woman 25 years his senior. Moreover, they met when he was
15 and she was his teacher.
The
libertarian Arndt said the matter was of no importance but conceded that
such a situation would not likely be repeated in Australia. She then
made a hard point: “It’s total hypocrisy. We jump up and down in the
royal commission (into institutional responses to child sexual abuse)
about abuse of people in institutions. We don’t give a stuff about the
major risk for children, which is, you know, children in single-parent
families being abused by boyfriends passing in and out of those
families.”