The community is once again treated to the double standards and ideological bigotry of Melbourne's feminist Age

Melbourne's irrational leftist newspaper, The Age, reported in today's edition that:

Community Services Minister Mary Wooldridge said two temporary agency staff were looking after the child when he was left behind at the end of a group outing at Coburg Lake on February 25.

The boy was found wandering alone by a woman who phoned police about 8pm.

The child was in the care of a community-based organisation contracted to the Department of Human Services.

Police were told the carers left the boy alone on the advice of a supervisor who said it was too dangerous for one of them to stay behind.

The Age offers no further comment, merely satisfied with the reporting of the appalling neglect of members of the Department of Human Services who some weeks ago admitted that they could not protect 600 children who were in danger of abuse.

Imagine now that a nun, brother or priest from a Catholic religious order or agency had been guilty of this unfathomable neglect and possibly fatal irresponsibility. What then? I'll tell you. There would have been a nuclear explosion of sanctimony and moral indignation from Australia's champion ideological bigots and hypocrites. Warning signs of harmful moral radiation would have to be placed outside their luxurious building on the Calder Highway.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/carers-leave-boy-alone-in-park-20110331-1cgx7.html

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