by KEVIN DONNELLY – THE Uluru Statement from the Heart recently celebrated its sixth anniversary and should be compulsory reading for all Australians eligible to vote in the forthcoming referendum. The Statement calls for “the establishment of the First Nations Voice enshrined…
POLITICOM contributor Kevin Donnelly’s latest book will launch in Sydney this month shining a spotlight on the danger of prioritising emotions over morals. Dr Donnelly’s The Dictionary Of Woke examines how far things can go wrong when politeness and sensitivity replace hard-learned…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – ONE of the most successful strategies used by the cultural-Left to radically reshape society in its utopian image is redefining language to suit its agenda. As noted by George Orwell: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt…
ONE of the nation’s most senior educators has warned that traditional Australia will be lost if conservatives continue to flee from the culture debate. Australian Catholic University Senior Research Fellow Dr Kevin Donnelly said the culture war was real, that the Left’s take-over of institutions was happening and that very little was being done to prevent it.
WITH the 26th of January and Australia Day upon us it’s time to acknowledge and celebrate what a great country this is. Forget the racial activists and Left-wing whingers always talking the nation down with their argument we are a racist, white supremacist society where Aborigines suffer perpetual disadvantage.
FOR all the talk of wokeness and cancel culture, it didn’t just spring out of nowhere – it has a long history. There’s no doubt politically correct woke ideology and cancel culture dominate Western societies and determine government policy, how individuals interact both privately and at work and what happens in our schools and universities.
YOU can forget the Australian Education Union’s claim that the best way to raise standards and improve results is to invest more in education.
They would say that, wouldn’t they — despite the just-released OECD Education at a Glance 2019 report which ranks Australian primary and secondary school teachers among the best paid across the OECD countries. School principals’ salaries are also among the highest.
RARELY does a dictionary have you laugh, cringe and kick the cat with the turn of each page.
But that’s the roller-coaster ride Dr Kevin Donnelly takes you on with his latest book A Politically Correct Dictionary and Guide.
