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In commenting 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 protecting LGBT+ students from discrimination and assault, saying "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 claim strenuously denied by his mother.<ref>{{Cite web |date= 3 April 1997 |title=Gay Student's Mother Denies Manipulation |url=https://groups.google.com/g/soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi/c/K-aOeBXdG00 |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=[[Radio Australia]] |language=en-AU}}</ref>

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>

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