identity politics

‘Quick, somebody call a Diversity Officer!!’
15 September 2022

‘Quick, somebody call a Diversity Officer!!’

This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia on or about 15 September 2022 and was written by the author in her capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Identity politics is seriously damaging our most important institutions It is not just young
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Activists Masquerading As Educators
7 May 2022

Activists Masquerading As Educators

The recent news from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) that fewer and fewer students are choosing to study higher mathematics at Secondary school is yet another black mark against our education system. Unfortunately, things are hardly better in Literature. Victoria, which leads the way in progressive education, has seen students ditching literature in their droves. Over the last three
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A Day At The ABC
15 October 2020

A Day At The ABC

The following is a sneak peek into a day in the life of an intern at the ABC, based on content that has been published either by the ABC or the media about ABC staff. Congratulations! You have just started an internship at Australia’s public broadcaster, the ABC. At 9:00am you are ushered into your manager’s office, who sits you
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Identity Politics Will Destroy The Arts
8 October 2020

Identity Politics Will Destroy The Arts

When Australia’s most generous musical theatre scholarship, the Rob Guest Endowment, recently published the names of thirty semi-finalists who were in the running to win a $50,000 scholarship, fellow actor and performer Hayden Tee seized upon the list, scrutinised the names and arrived at the conclusion that the line-up did not meet his expectations of racial diversity. Mr Tee then
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Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense
13 August 2020

Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense

If you want to know what is going wrong in Victoria, all you need do is look at a job being advertised on Seek by the state’s Department of Justice and Community Safety. The department wishes to hire a “director, inclusion and intersectionality”, for which it is offering a generous salary of $192,800-$249,700 plus superannuation. According to the ad, the
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Looking Forward Episode 75: Just the Ticket for Biden?
12 August 2020

Looking Forward Episode 75: Just the Ticket for Biden?

Joe Biden has decided Kamala Harris is to be his pick as vice president based on the fact she is an African-American woman. Should identity politics have a place in the presidential campaign, or should people of power be chosen rather on merit? (3:27-25:20). Dan Tehan has announced a review into Robert French’s freedom of speech on campus model. Should
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ABC Enforces Divisive Identity Politics In Leaked Document
7 August 2020

ABC Enforces Divisive Identity Politics In Leaked Document

An internal ABC document obtained by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has exposed the divisive identity politics that is being forced onto mainstream Australians by the public broadcaster. The ‘Content Tracker’ asks ABC Radio National producers and staff to keep tabs and enforce representation on its programs based on inegalitarian characteristics including women, Indigenous and Torres
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Activist Judges Misrepresent Mabo To Create Privileged Class
13 February 2020

Activist Judges Misrepresent Mabo To Create Privileged Class

The High Court’s decision on Tuesday to exempt an entire group of people based on their racial identity from the operation of national migration laws is the most radical instance of judicial activism in Australian judicial history. The High Court’s decision concerned two individuals who were not born in Australia and were not Australian citizens but who claim biological descent
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Identity Politics Thrives On The Ideas That Divide Us
11 October 2019

Identity Politics Thrives On The Ideas That Divide Us

Everything that’s wrong with the toxic culture of identity politics was revealed by the reaction to a photo of four people watching  an NFL football game in the United States on Sunday. At the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers, George W. Bush was sitting between his wife Laura and Ellen DeGeneres. On the other side of
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Braving Two Terrifying Tribes: Academics And Racism Warriors
3 October 2019

Braving Two Terrifying Tribes: Academics And Racism Warriors

Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, who died this week aged 81, was in the last generation of that profession who could claim to have studied an indigenous culture more or less unsullied by contact with modernity. And he was among the first of his generation to experience personal attacks from the ascendant cultural left in full flight; subject to deplatforming, character assassination,
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