Brogden
The only reason you have given for the worthinness of that piece of news if that -Pat Robertson- was on ITN (which many Wikipedians also agreed with). The top international new items today seem to be the hurricane, the Iraqi constitution, the Japanese election and the threat of resumption of conflict in the Congo. Some minor Australia politican being a racist is not suitable for the main page and your actions did seem to violate WP:POINT.