Homophobic, racist attack on QLD MP

The office of Queensland Labor MP Curtis Pitt was last night attacked by vandals, who scrawled homophobic and racist graffiti on its street frontage just a day after wide-spread outrage at an anti-gay marriage advertisment put out by federal MP Bob Katter’s Australian Party.

Pitt tweeted photos of the damage this morning, which included the spray-painting of “Communist Gay, Communist N…- loving party” on the windows of his Far North Queensland electorate office in Gordonvale.

Pitt has previously been the target of hate mail after the Bligh Government passed same-sex civil union legislation.

The minister for disability services, mental health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships, is also married to an Indigenous Australian woman.

“This is the cowardly overnight attack on my office in Gordonvale. Utterly disgraceful,” Pitt wrote on his official Twitter account.

“There is NO place in Australian politics for this kind of bigotry or intolerance.”

Premier Anna Bligh also condemned the incident today, telling reporters that Queenslanders would be disturbed by the attack.

“Curtis is very offended by this material and particularly so because Curtis is married to a very proud Indigenous woman,” she said.

“It is disturbing to see some of the language and some of the hateful comments that we’re starting to see about some groups in our community.”

Opposition Leader Campbell Newman went further, suggesting the defacing of Pitt’s electoral office may have been sparked by the controversial anti-gay election advertisement by Katter’s Australian Party.