Our Bill is not a happy man. Interviewed on Channel 7’s Today Tonight program earlier this month he was most concerned about the treatment he received:

Strange, but when I was introduced, I was called ‘deeply religious’ and part of the Australian Family Association [AFA]. They got it wrong on the latter, as I twice told them I was secretary of the Family Council of Victoria. (’Vic. Education Dept promotes gay agenda’, News Weekly, 24 Jun. 2006)

Well, I can understand your frustration, Bill, but you must admit that following all your peregrinations is a challenge. As far as I can make out you arrived in Australia in about 1989 from America via the Netherlands and did some work with the Institute of Public Affairs and Quadrant magazine. You were then employed by the National Civic Council’s AFA in 1992 and moved to Focus on the Family Australia in 1996, having first become (part-time, honorary?) Secretary of the Family Council of Victoria in 1994. You moved to Salt Shakers in 1998 but by 2000 had returned to the AFA where you remained until the end of 2005. And you still have articles appearing in AFA and National Civic Council journals.

So I can see why journalists might get a little confused.

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