Shift Australia Day, ban Margaret Court, and shut radicalised ABC

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Let’s shift Australia Day. It was only ever a marketing exercise and the symbolism of the date is all wrong in a modern multicultural nation. Margaret Court should not be given honours after she endorsed bigotry publicly. She has the right to speak out but must take responsibility for her views in terms of accepted norms.

And, most importantly, something must also be done to correct the radicalised ABC. Here’s the line-up of stories today. I have circled all of those driven by sex and race:

To be clear, I have no issue with any of these stories. The problem is that they are displacing other stories and voices and the balance is entirely out of whack. This is leading to very perverse editorial viewpoints for the national broadcaster which make it:

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  • unrepresentative;
  • sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party even as it endeavors to end Australian freedom;
  • vehemently anti-American, and I mean viscerally so, not in terms of reasoned criticism, and
  • the plaything of vested corporate interests that support social radicalism, making it the useful idiot of class repression.

In short, the radicalised ABC has tipped over from journalism to social engineering activism and has thus betrayed its underlying reason for being, which is objective journalism, right? Right?

I have exhaustively chronicled the development of this viewpoint over the past year. It is no longer a simple curiosity. It is now a standing national interest threat because the ABC is today in the business of privileging race and gender ahead of ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. As such, it is unable to objectively confront issues of national interest that conflict with its extremist social lens.

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In short, Australian taxpayers are now paying for their own national broadcaster to undermine their freedoms. That would be comical if it were not so calamitously stupid. If ABC editors and journos want to run a progressive cult website then they should absolutely do so. Commercially. Not on the taxpayer’s dime.

Late last year, I and other MB readers, made a complaint along these lines to ABC authorities and we are yet to even hear back. This bespeaks an arrogance and entitlement unbefitting any house of journalism, let alone a public service.

Let’s shift Australia Day. Let’s revoke the Margaret Court award. And let’s shut the ABC before it succeeds in replacing “Australia” with an atomised cluster of sub-cultural cliques with so little in common that Beijing and its bribed businessmen can control it with ease.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.