buried. In early 2020, the feud escalated when Bolt published a letter provided to him by Josephine Cashman, which resulted in Cashman being dismissed from the Federal Government's Indigenous voice to government's Senior Advisory Group. In the blog post, Bolt said the letter had been written by a Yolngu elder, denouncing Pascoe and Dark Emu. However the elder asserted that he had not written the letter, and it was also found to have paragraphs lifted from other sources. Child sexual grooming comments Bolt was widely condemned by child protection advocates who stated that he had minimised the seriousness of child sexual grooming during a segment on his Sky News show on 18 February 2020. Bolt repeatedly used the phrase "hit on" to describe the sexual grooming of a year 9 school boy by his athletics coach at St Kevin's College, Melbourne. Child welfare advocate Katrina Lines said "There is no consensual social situation in which it would be OK for an adult to 'hit on' a child. The adult was grooming the child and building an emotional connection so they could do what they wanted to him". The abused school boy later stated that Bolt and Gerard Henderson's comments made him feel "sick" and accused the pair of "trivialising" the assaults. Bolt and Henderson apologised for their comments in the subsequent days. Climate change In 2021, Bolt opposed the News Corp campaign to publicise the effects of climate change as 'rubbish'. Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive, Kelly O’Shanassy, commented that Bolt has "no credibility" on climate change. Books by BoltBolt: Still Not Sorry, Melbourne: Wilkinson Publishing, 2016.Bolt: Worth Fighting For: Insights & Reflections, Melbourne: Wilkinson Publishing, 2016. Personal life Bolt is married to Sally Morrell, a fellow columnist at the Herald Sun''. They have been married since 1989 and have three children. Bolt is an agnostic. References External links Bolt's blog at the Herald Sun 1959 births Australian agnostics Australian bloggers Australian columnists Australian conspiracy theorists Australian people of Dutch descent Bloggers from Melbourne Conservatism in Australia Conservative talk radio people Living people Online journalists People from Adelaide Sky News Australia reporters and presenters