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The fightback against wokeness has begun — Frank Furedi, Spiked

There’s a reason why social engineers are so keen on early years intervention. They believe that indoctrination is most effective when it is directed at those who have not yet learned to think for themselves – namely, toddlers. This is why advocates of ‘decolonising the curriculum’ and critical race theory insist that unconscious bias can be detected in children before they can speak.

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Random Note –  The Left

The one thing about the left, the one consistent thing, is that they always accuse others of the very thing they’re doing or intend to do. In this case undermine and ending “our democracy”. Watch for the brainless talking heads on television parroting the same set of words. It is textbook psychological projection. 

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Random Note — Life Under Labor

With the polls tightening and indicating a Labor victory and while the attention span drifts over the summer break ahead of the federal election in the first few months of next year, we need to project into 2022 and beyond under a Labor government and anticipate...

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Random Note — Ita’s pretzel logic and circular reasoning

Apart from the sheer effrontery and unmitigated gall, it takes a special kind of chutzpah, pretzel logic and twisted, circular reasoning for Ita Buttrose to accuse the government of “political interference” over a simple call for accountability in establishing a...

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Random Note — Conservatives are sleepy and have no idea

Almost a hundred years before Andrew Breitbart made his observation that “politics is downstream of culture”, Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci understood the significance of culture when he further developed the Karl Marx concept of cultural hegemony and the idea...

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Random Note — Education

As well as rigour and greater parental involvement Tony Abbott should have included in his list a more critical focus on curriculum versus pedagogy. That is, what is taught versus how it’s taught. It’s a very fine distinction, understood  by many to mean the same...

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Random Note — Xi

Random Note — Xi

You don’t need to be Nostradamus to foresee the outcome depicted in Spooners cartoon. Xi is messing with the heads of the West playing three dimensional chess while they play checkers and is simply not going to play their game and commit to anything, if at all, until...

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Random Note — tweaking and tampering democracy

The idea that we shouldn’t tamper, tweak or update the democratic or voting system or the constitution for that matter, because it was developed by some supposedly very wise men 120 years ago and is Jurassic park like, suspended in aspic or fossilised amber, is driven I suspect by emotion and sentiment more than anything else and it’s a hard habit to let go. 

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