The trouble with Katie Hopkins and why the situation was always a guaranteed loss
As the news emerges that far-right commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia, media analyst Ben Shepherd looks at why she was here in the first place, and what damage she may have caused.
When news leaked out that noted UK based far-right commentator Katie Hopkins was somehow holed up in Australian hotel quarantine, it understandably set off a predictable level of outrage.
Here’s a hot-take celebrity, famous for her disparaging remarks about anyone with a skin colour that isn’t white, who is banned from Twitter (no mean feat) and is considered by many a model citizen and spokesperson by Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other groups with equally questionable world views.
Hopkins couldn’t help but announce her 14-day mandated Australian hotel sleepover to her audience, letting them know she didn’t agree with the mandatory nature of the quarantine, and she was actively and enthusiastically breaching the rules by seeking to troll and harass frontline workers (who, are probably already traumatised given their day job involves trying to avoid contracting a potentially deadly disease).
