Peta Credlin: What sort of woefully woke world have we become?

‘Birthing parents’ who produce ‘chest milk’, and a New Zealand MP who likens a necktie to a noose — has the world gone completely mad, asks Peta Credlin.

Every day I have to remind myself that Australia is still the best country in the world because almost every day I find myself wondering: “How on Earth did we end up here?”

Is this really what the generations before us sacrificed so much to build, a nation at war with itself, with people frightened to speak their minds, and cancelled if they do?

Sadly, it’s not an Australian affliction alone.

It’s a madness right across the Western world.

What sort of woke nonsense decrees that breastfeeding should be rebadged as ‘chestfeeding’? Picture: iStock

Our parents and grandparents were proud of the values that had made humanity better — equality, freedom of conscience, free speech, the rule of law, and democracy — yet we are now so confused and conflicted about the societies these values have spawned that we’re either tearing them down or sitting passively by, letting others do it.

Here are just a few recent examples from last week alone.

Barnardos Australia, the children’s charity, cancelling it’s Mother of the Year award after 25 years lest it offend carers who aren’t women.

In Britain, the Brighton and Sussex Hospital, in a new “inclusion” edict, has officially banned the term “maternity department”, that’s now to be known as the “peri-natal services department”. Breastfeeding is now to be called “chest feeding”. A “mother” is now the gender-neutral “birthing parent”, her “breastmilk” is now “chest milk” and poor old Dad has been erased, with “father” becoming “co-parent”, or the dystopian “second biological parent”.

Co-leader of New Zealand's Maori party Rawiri Waititi was ejected from parliament on February 9 for refusing to wear a necktie. Picture: TVNZ

And in New Zealand, after a Maori member of the parliament was ejected by the speaker for not conforming to the dress code by wearing a tie (something he had earlier declared was “a colonial noose”), his supporters chimed in, calling ties “phallic” and an “outdated symbol of white male rule”.

It’s not new technology that would have our forebears scratching their heads but woke ideology. You’ve got to wonder where we’re heading as a country when apologies aren’t accepted, history’s not respected, and common sense has gone into hiding; when BLM rallies go ahead but not Anzac Day marches.

What’s actually missing, from a country whose anthem declares that we’re “one and free” but whose premiers ensure that we’re neither, is leadership.

On issues of culture, even the Prime Minister has gone missing. Asked on radio on Friday, whether we’re “too woke”, Scott Morrison said: “Who cares … I just want people in jobs and I want them healthy.”

Fair enough perhaps, on the day Victoria was about to enter its third lockdown; but a PM modelling himself on John Howard can’t cop out of every fight.