Category Archives: Culture

‘The LGBT movement is over’

According to Sydney Watson, there are signs the LGBT movement is finished. She provides much evidence for this assertion. I hope she’s right.

I agree with her. I don’t care what wacko role a person wants to perform in society. That’s up to them. I simply reject a collection of wacko roles being made into an ideology and then forced on the general community. This is oppression – apart from the many unsavoury features of those wacko roles.

The facts about Australia’s origins

The video below is an excellent summary of the legal arguments demonstrating that the settlement of the continent, now known as Australia, was legal. To claim otherwise would be to declare most migratory settlements throughout history illegal. Which is absurd.

A feature of the video is the terrific clips showing Australia in the 1960s.

Poor sad New Zealand – capitulates to the Marxists and reinvented Maoris

The Takeover of New Zealand

Amy Brooke, Quadrant, Jun 12 2025

We well know rule by communist parties leads to totalitarian politics, repression, restrictions of human rights, poor economic performance and artistic and cultural censorship. If we replace the word communist with today’s radicalised Maori agenda, the tentacles of which now have a firm hold on virtually every aspect of our national life, we see New Zealanders are faced with political and cultural bullying so entrenched that the outcomes have become almost identical. The literary and arts  establishments have long been lost causes in the hands of far-Left organisations prioritizing biculturalism and adept at obtaining government funding, much of which ends up in the pockets of those administering it.

Poor economic performance is now endemic, with the current coalition of the National, ACT and New Zealand First parties landed with the shocking mismanagement of the economy by Jacinda Ardern’s previous Labour government. The pathway ahead from the recent government budget shows continuing borrowing and spending, with no apparent plan to deal with the increasing deficits projected from 2030 onwards. Strangely, the government’s books omit a massive and known ACC liability. Treasury predicts debt rising from $250.9 billion this year to $354 billion by 2029, or $49160 per household. Moreover, the gullible or worse Simon Watts, our Climate Change minister, is determined to stay with the sinking ship of the Paris Accord and Net Zero abandoned by other countries, estimated to cost New Zealand between $24 to $37 billion. None of our 32 government ministries have been abolished. Yet Switzerland, with double our population, manages with only seven cabinet ministers.

The size of our government bureaucracy today is a major reason the country is in decline, with the civil service bloated both in size and pay. The core public service is now 60% larger than under former Prime Minister John Key. Average public sector pay exceeds that of the private sector. Six years ago the Reserve Bank had 225 staff: it now has 660. This is the bank which changed its focus from fighting inflation to wasting taxpayers’ money on virtue signalling with its commitment to DEI, Te Ao Maori (i.e. the Maori worldview, referring to cultural beliefs, practices and values)  and climate change. In addition to doubling staff numbers, it helped pour fuel on inflation by printing millions of dollars in an attempt to paper over the Covid crisis. It is regarded as costing taxpayers millions of dollars with reckless interventions.

Incredibly, separatist hiring policies at Parliament are revealed in the official parliamentary website. For example, Te ao Maori is now a key consideration in recruitment practices. The fact that this is discriminatory, and illegal – as the New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993 prohibits discrimination on the grounds of ethnic or cultural origin, race, religious or ethical beliefs – is apparently no obstacle to mandating an extraordinary document, “He Ao Takitaki” meaning the stars that guide us. This most central of government organisations prioritises the thinking of the ancestors of today’s part-Maori descendants as the key to getting a job at parliament. The 20 pages of what has been described as psychobabble – much of it written in the newly invented te Reo (bearing minimal resemblance to the genuine Maori language) have been well described as subversive of the whole democratic process.

Read the rest here . . .

Woke Mornington Peninsula Council cancels Australia Day

It was not so many years ago in Mornington on the Mornington Peninsula that a huge, festive parade would process down Main Street to the bay to celebrate the foundation of the nation of Australia on the 26th of January 1788. There would be floats, some piled with excited kids, representing a variety of clubs, associations, and businesses. It was a thoroughly enjoyable family day.

But it was all too white for the people who gained control of the Mornington Peninsula Council. Too many white kiddies around. The parade had to go.

I will stroll down to the bay end of Main Street to see if there’s any vestige of that former celebration. I will then visit the council’s offices at Mornington, Somerville, Hastings, and Rosebud, where the councillors’ political propensities are on full display.

Mornington Peninsula Council’s Soviet re-education camp

The report below appeared in October 2023. Sending a councillor to re-education for deviating from the council’s woke regime marked it as one of the wokest councils in Australia. They have not improved much. See my following comment for an update on this appalling band of councillors.

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Victorian councillor Susan Bissinger forced to undergo ‘personal development training’ following dispute over Pride flag

Victorian Councillor Susan Bissinger has claimed she was forced to complete a “personal development course” after expressing opposition to a permanent Pride flag at the council offices.

Reilly SullivanDigital, Sky News, October 25, 2023 – 10:00


A councillor from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula has claimed she was forced to undertake a personal development course after expressing opposition to a permanent Pride flag outside the council offices.

Councillor Susan Bissinger was recently ordered to complete the training after mediation with shire mayor Steve Holland in September.

The mediation followed an online exchange between Ms Bissinger, councillors and council staff regarding a plan to permanently fly the “Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag” at all council offices in the affluent coastal shire.

The updated rainbow flag was unveiled in 2021 to represent the full LGBTQI+ community, including transgender and intersex people.

Councillor Susan Bissinger claimed she had to undergo development training after expressing opposition to a Pride flag. Picture: Sky News Australia.

Councillor Susan Bissinger claimed she had to undergo development training after expressing opposition to a Pride flag. Picture: Sky News Australia.

On Wednesday evening, Ms Bissinger told Sky News that the dispute “wasn’t about the intersex (sic) flag itself” but the decision to fly a “divisive” flag in a predominantly “conservative” community.

“We’d just come off a situation where we had consecutive really bad reports from our community about how we were tracking as a council and so the council employed a whole team to come in and see how we could improve our image,” she told Andrew Bolt.

Ms Bissinger said that she was initially “optimistic” about the image overhaul but was surprised to discover the suggestions included a permanent Pride flag outside all council offices.

“The fact is it’s a flag that wasn’t necessary and it was divisive. We were trying to improve our image and get back to the basics and this just seemed like such a distraction for people,” she said.

“I sent an email out and said ‘is this really necessary?’

Read the rest here . . .

Our racist Race Discrimination Commissioner – Labor appointee of course

Race Discrimination Commissioner ‘denigrates’ Australian culture

Sky News, 14 April 2025

Menzies Research Centre’s Freya Leach has accused Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman of trying to “denigrate” Australian culture.

Mr Sivaraman has previously urged parents to discuss racism with children and has described Australia Day as a day of mourning which ‘compounds racism’ and shouldn’t be celebrated.

“If pride is allowed for everyone except Anglo-Australians, then that is racism, but this is part of a broader pattern of the commissioner denigrating our culture, heritage and values,” Ms Leach said.

“Here’s the irony of the whole thing: we’re told Australia is a racist country by a highly paid Indian migrant who’s been given a national megaphone and a $400,000 taxpayer-funded salary.

“If anything, I think this is proof that we are a very tolerant country, perhaps maybe even too tolerant of people disparaging Australia, dividing us along the lines of race, and inculcating victimhood.”

See the video here . . .

Not all Millennials and Zoomers are woke

There are increasing signs that wokism has not infected the entire Millennial and Zoomer demographic.

Great applause for the students who walked out on the separatist lecture of a White-Aboriginal.

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Sky News host Liz Storer discusses a University of Queensland senior law lecturer’s berating of students for walking out during a history of Indigenous law. “A senior lecturer of law at the University of Queensland … was so offended when tens of students, she claimed, walked out of one of her lectures,” Ms Storer said. “When she was talking about the history of Indigenous legal history and she got so offended by this she then decided to lecture them in a following lecture in a rather threatening way.”