A SURVEY has revealed high levels of scepticism at how objective Australian media outlets are, as more people begin placing trust in their own research and other institutions. Research from Edelman’s 2021 Trust Barometer found 68 per cent of Australians believed local news organisations were more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than they were with informing the public.
PILATE’S contemptuous dismissal of truth echoes down the ages. Those who, like Pilate, wash their hands while authoritarians try to gag anyone they insist must not speak, ignore what distinguishes civilisation from the evil alternatives. The search for truth is dependent on freedom of speech. As Robert Menzies warned: “Today’s truth is frequently tomorrow’s error…. If truth is to emerge and in the long run be triumphant, the process of free debate – the untrammelled clash of opinion – must go on”.
THE vitriolic, personal attacks on the tennis great Margaret Court provide the most recent example of the poisonous impact of cancel culture as does the perennial complaint by black activists that the First Fleet’s arrival celebrated on Australia Day heralds the beginning of Aboriginal genocide. Even “It’s your ABC” has gone to the dark side describing the nation’s birth as invasion day.
UNIVERSITY graduates fail to reflect mainstream Australian values with disproportionately high numbers leaning heavily towards socialism, according to a recent Newspoll survey. Although the poll reveals a Coalition government would cruise to victory in a general election – this result, however, would easily reverse to Labor if voting was limited to university graduates only.
GOVERNMENT funding has been withheld from a Christian organisation because its views on marriage are deemed non-inclusive. The grant application from Victory Life Church to assist purchase a refrigerated truck to distribute food to Perth’s homeless was rejected due the views of its founder, tennis great Margaret Court.
GENDER wokeness has infected the highest levels of Australia’s political class with MPs refusing to recognise biological women. In an almost school-like social science exercise parliamentary representatives were asked by gender defender organisation, Binary, to define a women.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s harsh rebuke of a self-serving United Nations bureaucracy should serve as a lesson for Australia’s hostile public sector. Mr Morrison this week reminded the UN it worked for its members and not for its own “processes, institutions and officials”.
LABOR leader Anthony Albanese has sided with radical hippies as ALP unions, factions and shadow ministers go to war over weather.With the nation’s focus firmly fixed on Coronavirus recovery, Labor has spent the past six months tearing itself apart over carbon.
UNELECTED activist bureaucrats are intimidating Australians into silence for attempting to state the obvious according to Federal Senator Claire Chandler. The under fire Tasmanian MP said it was appalling that everyday citizens, including herself, were being put through the “legal wringer” for stating normal mainstream views.
FEMINIST activists have failed to have the Australia Day honour removed from their one-time poster girl Bettina Arndt, despite powerful backing from media and politicians. Ms Arndt, who was awarded the Order of Australia honour in January, fell foul of modern feminists after rejecting claims of a university rape culture, saying there was no evidence to support such assertions.
