Catholicism can be ridiculously simple. Confess your sins in a spirit of true repentance and — te absolvo — you are forgiven. Politics, alas, is more complicated.
After George Brandis uttered his famous “People do have a right to be bigots, you know” in March 2014 in response to a question on proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act in March 2014, a conspiracy theory arose.
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