Robert Clark. Photo: Michael Copp
Robert Clark's welcome to Melbourne address to a conference organised by a hard-right, anti-gay, anti-abortion group is consistent with the state government's tourism agenda to attract people to Melbourne, Premier Denis Napthine says.
The Attorney-General will late next month deliver an opening address to the World Congress of Families conference, a controversial group that strongly backs Russian president Vladimir Putin's laws against "homosexual propaganda".
The conference, with a speaker list including a who's who of the conservative hard right, has fuelled fresh controversy for the Napthine government following a report in The Age outlining the group's global agenda.
It will be opened and closed by federal social services minister Kevin Andrews and includes speeches by upper house MP Bernie Finn, NSW MP Fred Nile and Angela Lanfranchi, who will deliver a talk on promoting discredited claims a link exists between abortion and breast cancer. Mr Andrews will appear on stage with the event's organiser, Larry Jacobs, who has hailed Russia as "the Christian saviours to the world" for its anti-homosexual stance.
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