That year Johns also penned a column in which he said the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians "cannot close while Aborigines live a lifestyle that harms them. Australians are fools and worse to ignore this."

In 2014 Johns wrote a column in which he argued that welfare for women should be linked to compulsory contraception.



"Some families, some communities, some cultures breed strife," he wrote. "Governments cannot always fix it. Compulsory contraception for those on benefits would help crack intergenerational reproduction of strife."

In 2015 he published the book No Contraception, No Dole.

Johns also attacked Australia's largest charity to raise awareness for depression, Beyond Blue, for raising concerns about the welfare of LGBTI Australians, who it said faced greater risks to their mental health because of "violence, prejudice and discrimination".

In 2014 he published a book titled The Charity Ball in which he wrote: “Some charity activities such as lobbying are of doubtful public benefit but profitable for the charity. Some charitable purposes are doubtful on other grounds.”

There was a "great deal of impure altruism" in the charity sector, he said.

“On the donor side, there is some self-regard and some agenda-chasing. On the charity side, there is agenda pushing and organisation enhancement. No set of rules could hope to create a clean market of pure motives and perfect outcomes.

"Doing good is often contestable."

He criticised Indigenous not-for-profits Reconciliation Australia and Recognise.

"The group, Recognise, is the officially sanctioned propaganda arm of the Australian Government."

Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh said the decision to appoint Johns was "like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank."