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Line 6: | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1961|7| | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = Line 22: }} '''Miranda Devine''' (born ==Early life and education== Line 42: === Gender and LGBTIQ issues === In her comments in ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]'' on the [[Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association#Tsakalos v._DoE|breach of duty of care lawsuit]] brought by 14-year-old gay student Christopher Tsakalos against the [[Department of Education (New South Wales)|New South Wales Education Department]] in 1997, Devine [[Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association#Media representation|poured cold water]] on the possibility of ever [[duty of care|protecting]] LGBT+ students from discrimination and assault, asserting that to do so, "you would have to make mincing homosexuality the norm in schools." Devine also accused the [[Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association]] of coaching Tsakalos’ [[Camp (style)|camp performance]] for financial reward, and to make him into "an international poster boy for the homosexual movement",<ref>Rasmussen, M. L. (2003). ''Queer trepidations and the art of inclusion''. Melbourne Studies in Education, 44(1), 87–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2003.9558593</ref> a In 2011, Devine used the news of Australian federal government minister [[Penny Wong]]'s decision to parent a child with her female partner as the basis of a column in which she argued that the [[2011 England riots|2011 riots in England]] were the result of a "fatherless society".<ref>{{cite news |last=Devine |first=Miranda |title=The Problems of a Fatherless Society |url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/mirandadevine/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/its_a_myth_conception |access-date=14 August 2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]] |date=14 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Deveny |first=Catherine |author-link=Catherine Deveny |date=17 August 2011 |title=Why equal rights activists need Miranda Devine more than rallies |work=The Drum |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |url=http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2842140.html |access-date=24 August 2011}}</ref> Writing for ''ABC News'', [[Catherine Deveny]] criticised Devine's claim that [[same-sex marriage]] was a "political tool to undermine the last bastion of bourgeois morality - the traditional nuclear family".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Deveny |first1=Catherine |title=Why equal rights activists need Miranda Devine more than rallies |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-17/deveney-why-equal-rights-activists-need-miranda-devine/2842140 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315194111/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-17/deveney-why-equal-rights-activists-need-miranda-devine/2842140 |archive-date=15 March 2017 |date=17 August 2011}}</ref> Devine sparked further controversy in 2015 after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause of [[domestic violence in Australia]] and contending "if you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men".<ref>{{cite news |first=Jenny |last=Noyes |url=http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/miranda-devine-column-prompts-domestic-violence-survivors-to-share-unsuitablewomen-stories-20150928-gjw8ua.html |title=Miranda Devine column prompts domestic violence survivors to share #UnsuitableWomen stories |newspaper=The Vine |date=28 September 2015 }}</ref> In 2016, Devine again caused controversy by comparing the purported "vilification" of opponents of [[same-sex marriage in Australia]] to the victims of [[ISIL beheading incidents|beheadings by ISIS]], saying that critics of same-sex marriage were being "brutally made examples of" by "intolerant authoritarians".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Canning |first1=Simon |title=LGBTIQ comparison to ISIS by Tele's Miranda Devine sets off social media outrage |url=https://mumbrella.com.au/lgbtiq-comparisn-isis-teles-miranda-devine-sets-off-social-media-outrage-399316 |website=mumbrella.com.au |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012134955/https://mumbrella.com.au/lgbtiq-comparisn-isis-teles-miranda-devine-sets-off-social-media-outrage-399316 |archive-date=12 October 2020 |date=2 October 2016}}</ref> Line 59: ===Hunter Biden=== Miranda Devine has been cited as the source for a rental application of [[Hunter Biden]]'s purporting to have previously paid $49,910 of rent a month at a previous property. This has been construed by [[Tucker Carlson]], [[Jeanine Pirro|Judge Jeanine]] and other [[Fox News]] hosts as proof of money laundering within the Biden family. <ref name="Youtube">{{cite web |title=Hunter Biden THREATENS Fox News for spreading wild Twitter CONSPIRACY THEORY |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyn-DsUpcX8 |website=Youtube | date=4 February 2023 |access-date=6 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The fact checking website PolitiFact, points out that this claim is wrong, and that the actual property referenced is Hunter Biden's office space in the "House of Sweden" building on K Street, Washington, D.C. <ref name="PolitiFact">{{cite web |last1=Washington |first1=District of Columbia 1800 I. Street NW |title=PolitiFact - Hunter Biden paid $50,000 in rent for office space in DC, not to his father to live at Delaware home |url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/19/facebook-posts/hunter-biden-paid-50000-rent-office-space-dc-not-h/ |website=@politifact |access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> ===Grenfell tower fire=== In June 2017, soon after the [[Grenfell tower fire]] in [[London]], Devine claimed that "aluminium composite cladding was applied to the building last May, not just for its good looks but as a sustainable energy solution to achieve green ticks in the carbon-obsessed British regulatory system." and that "Green ideology has given us...now flammable cladding."<ref>{{cite news |author=Devine, Miranda |agency= |title=Innocents burnt in the flames of green ideology |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/innocents-burnt-in-the-flames-of-green-ideology/news-story/0b24884b4c88b037ad8c21e9f0229735 |quote= |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |date=2017-06-18 |access-date=2024-09-11 }}</ref> Australian television program ''[[Media Watch (TV program)|Media Watch]]'' said in September 2024 that the [[Grenfell Tower Inquiry]] found "no evidence of ‘green ideas’ contributing to Grenfell Tower inferno that killed 72 people, despite News Corp columnists Rowan Dean and Miranda Devine stirring up a culture war seven years ago."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/grenfell/104329202 |title=Grenfell fire culture war |date=2024-09-09 |accessdate=2024-09-11 |quote= |publisher=[[ABC Television (Australian TV network)]] }}</ref> ==References== Line 83 ⟶ 86: [[Category:Fox News people]] [[Category:New York Post people]] [[Category:Northwestern University alumni]] | |||