Controversial social commentator Bettina Arndt and former Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton will keep their spots among the Order of Australia after the organising body rejected calls for their expulsion.
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Mr Carlton dismissed the campaign against him, saying it was "a piece of malicious bullying by the rabid right wing culture warriors at News Corpse ... followed up by a couple of the madder right-wing Liberal Party MPs"."News Corpse" is a popular pun in left wing circles on social media use to mock News Corp, the publisher of newspapers includingMr Carlton said he disagreed entirely with Ms Ardnt's politics but did not want her stripped of her award.
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