NSW State Election 2019

[brian ross]

Wrong again Brian.

Elaborate, Black Orchid?

[Black Orchid]

Considering your extremely rude initial response, Brian, go google it yourself

[brian ross]

Considering your extremely rude initial response, Brian, go google it yourself

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... The Mourning Bride (Act III Scene 2) by William Congreve

Don't worry, dear, I'm sure you'll get over it eventually...

[Serial Brain 9]

One Nation will have two seats in the New South Wales upper house, with crossbenchers holding the balance of power in the state's Legislative Council.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/one-nation- ... ouse-seats

[Black Orchid]

Highlights of Mark Latham's maiden speech. It's long but anyone who wishes to read it all can find it here ...

https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOut ... __tn__=K-R

Like so many parts of our politics that have changed quickly in recent times, there are voices here who do not believe in the virtues of the West, who do not acknowledge the nation-building achievements of our culture and our country.

It’s like a scene from The Life of Brian, a case of: What has Western civilisation done for us?

Only advanced healthcare and education; architecture, engineering, information technology, free speech and the rule of law.

In fact: this chamber, this parliament, in this city, all our public institutions and the material comforts we take for granted – none of them could exist without the greatness of the West.

Without the advances that began with the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution and continue to this day.

Yet still, among the Leftist elites, among the social engineers and cultural dietians, sneering at our civilisation and its achievements has become their new pastime.

They preach diversity but practice a suffocating cultural conformity, wanting everyone to be just like them.

They argue for inclusion but as soon as a Christian, a conservative, a libertarian, a nationalist, a working class larrikin, an outsider from the vast suburbs and regions of our nation disagrees with them, they crank up their PC-outrage machine to exclude them from society.

They are tolerant of everything except dissenting values and opinions – meaning, of course, they are tolerant of nothing that matters, only themselves.

The New Left are the new primitives of our time: junking the importance of evidence, of recorded history, of biological science, to pretend that all parts of our lives (especially race, gender and sexuality) can be fluid, that everything we know and feel around us is, in fact, ‘socially constructed’.

Mr President, they’re peddling Fake News.

We haven’t been brainwashed by ‘capitalist hegemony’ as the post-modernists argue.

People know and understand the things they see and feel in their lives.

It’s called evidence.

Our personal characteristics and identities are fixed, not fluid.
With few exceptions, people are born either male or female.
We shouldn’t be confusing young people and risking their mental health by pushing gender fluidity upon them.

We shouldn’t be taking away from parents their essential role as the primary carers of their children – in matters personal and sexual.

We shouldn’t be changing the purpose of our education system: transforming schools from places of skill and academic attainment into gender fluidity factories.

Most of all, we shouldn’t be losing sight of the interests of mainstream, majority Australia.

In the last national census, for instance, 13 hundred Australians identified as transgender.

But to listen to the political and media coverage of this issue, you would think there were 13 million.

They ask me, ‘What’s happened to our country; where has this nonsense come from?’

The answer is clear.

The Leftist project, then and now, is about control.
Having, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, lost the struggle for economic control, the Left got smarter.

It shifted from the Cold War to a culture war.

It moved from pursuing economic Marxism to pushing cultural Marxism.

Instead of trying to socialise the means of production, it’s now trying to socialise the means of individual expression and belief – our language, our values, our behaviour.

Instead of seeking revolution at the top of government, it has marched instead through our institutions – a tactic that’s harder to combat.

Sometimes we laugh at the absurdity of political correctness but at its core, it’s an insidious movement, a handbrake on liberty.

If you control someone’s language, you control a big part of their lives: how they interact with others, how they communicate in society, their feeling of belonging.

Like every other Australian, I own my own words, I know what I mean by them.

Like so many Australians, I refuse to allow my words to be controlled by strangers: by the elites with their confected outrage and PC-censorship.

In truth in society, offence is taken, not given.

It’s a personal choice, based on assumptions about what someone meant by their words.

Yet only the person speaking those words truly knows what was meant.

As the great John Cleese has pointed out, telling a joke about someone doesn’t mean we hate them.

We love the people we joke about – the Irish, the blondes, the gays, everyone – as they’ve helped to bring humour and joy into our lives.

The other problem with political correctness is in knowing what’s genuine and what’s not.

So much of the offenderati, the outrage industry, involves the fabrication of offence – saying that their feelings have been hurt solely for the reason of closing down their political opponents.

PC is riddled with these internal contradictions.

"Offenderati". Love it.

[Gordon]

I reckon Andrew Constance will lead the party to the next election.

Either that or he'll quit for a federal seat.