by KEVIN DONNELLY – AFTER reading The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Guide in the early 1990s, I never realised how infectious, dangerous and widespread political correctness would become. Most of the examples back then were humorous and appeared far-fetched with constructs…
by NINA NGUYEN – AUSTRALIA’s Health Chief has been lambasted for buying into “radical gender theory” after providing a 78-word definition of a “woman”. In April, Health Secretary Brendan Murphy was asked to define what a “woman” is by Liberal Senator Alex…
by NINA NGUYEN – THE “woke agenda” has ravaged the teaching quality of mathematics subjects in Australia, and the country would be “much better off” without it. The comments come following a report by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institutes, which reveals there…
INTERNATIONAL broadcaster Piers Morgan has teamed up with Sky News Australia – and local MPs – to shoot down the rise of global woke “nonsense”. Mr Morgan, whose prime time broadcast will air across Australia, the US and Britain, has vowed to…
SOCIAL justice advocates have transitioned into ruthless tyrants and oppressors ~ more interested in emotions than facts, according to a leading Australian academic. Dean of Law at Melbourne’s Swinburne University Mirko Bagaric has described woke culture as a threat to western society. …
THE American academic and author Camille Paglia in her book Free Women Free Men published in 2017 provides a scathing condemnation of “the plague of political correctness”. While there’s no doubt cultural-Left ideology, language control and group think now dominate across Western societies there is every hope sanity and reason might yet prevail.
WHEN sandal clad, social security funded brigades of bearded buffoons began to invade corporate Australia’s AGM seasons some years ago, no-one took much notice. The presiding Chair allowed them to speak, the meeting politely listened to whatever rant and rave then, afterwards, they devoured capitalist-provided cakes and sandwiches. No harm was done – until union superannuation funds empowered them by joining the fray.
AUSTRALIA’S domestic spy agency’s decision to drop sensitive labels such as “Left-Right” and “Islamic extremism” has received a mixed reaction, with one religious expert saying the shift to broader terminology could inadvertently mislead public perception of extremist behaviour.
RECENT events prove how destructive and widespread cancel culture is and how intent neo-Marxist inspired activists are to rewrite history and undermine and denigrate what is best about Western civilisation and societies like Australia. The most recent example involves Adam Smith, the renowned 18th century economist and philosopher whose highly influential book The Wealth of Nations revolutionised the study of commerce and who many consider one of the leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment.
THE Australian National University in Canberra has gone gender-woke replacing the words mum and dad with “birthing parent” and “non-gestational parent”. All references to mothers and fathers have been banned, with the university’s Gender Institute handbook ordering staff to use “gender inclusive” titles instead.
