FORMER Wannon Katter Party candidate Tess Corbett, who likened homosexuals to paedophiles, is due to face court on contempt proceedings.
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She made the comments during an interview on the federal election campaign trail in 2013 and was later found to have engaged in homosexual vilification under the Anti-Discrimination Act.
She was ordered to publish an apology in the Sydney Morning Herald but has not yet done so.
Anti-Discrimination campaigner Garry Burns commenced civil contempt proceedings against Ms Corbett in the New South Wales Supreme Court in December.
“My public interest work is not about punishing individuals; it is about educating people in powerful positions of their responsibilities to not make pernicious public statements that have a capacity or effect of inciting ridicule, contempt or hatred against homosexual Australians,” Mr Burns said.
He is seeking Ms Corbett be fined. The motion is listed for February 15.
