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I was sex discrimination commissioner, but Trump has a point about DEI

The old biases the women’s movement railed against so persuasively have been replaced by new biases, almost as distorting, unfair and opaque as those of the ancien régime.

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President Donald Trump’s uncompromising rejection of diversity, equity and inclusion has already sparked a flurry of job-title changes in US government departments and a wave of depression across the human rights world. But beware of those who dismiss this as another example of Trumpian wickedness. It is a productivity issue.

That Trump has the oratorical skills of a professional tennis player and apparently shares the alley-cat appetites of presidents LBJ, Bill Clinton and JFK, does not make this president wrong.

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Pru Goward is a former Liberal NSW government minister and sex discrimination commissioner.

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