Piers Akerman: From the voice to Pell, Left fully-armed for culture wars

Despite claims to the contrary, the culture wars are not only alive, they are virulently raging at every level of society and 2023 will only see them increase exponentially.

Despite claims to the contrary, the culture wars are not only alive, they are virulently raging at every level of society and 2023 will only see them increase exponentially.

Climate change, the Voice to Parliament, the death of Cardinal George Pell, even NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s 20-year-old fancy dress folly, are all the ammunition the progressive Left needs to keep the nation divided.

Just as Russia’s Vladimir Putin needs to endorse a mammoth dose of hypocrisy to provide cover for his murderous war on Ukraine’s civilians, so too do Labor, the Greens and Teals rely on double standards and an acquiescing population prepared to ignore duplicity to strengthen their grasp on power.

The Bureau of Meteorology, when not playing its own brand of the identity politics game, has gamed its own records to support its demonstratively false claims that we are in a climate crisis.

BoM officials are as politicised in their support for the Albanese government’s hysterical climate extinction measures as Chris “Blackouts” Bowen, the energy and climate change minister who refuses to acknowledge that his weather-dependent wind and solar cannot provide adequate base load power to support our population as coal-fired power plants are closed.

Solar power cannot provide the base load power to support our population. Picture: Kelly Barnes/The Australian

The need for constitutional change to accommodate a separatist Voice to Parliament only for a minority of Australians remains unexplained but it is clearly only about providing another power base for an urban elite.

The Aboriginal Affairs Minister sits on the frontbench and in Cabinet. If the holder of the portfolio cannot adequately represent those Australians who identify as Aboriginal, then what is the point of the position?

As Australia Day nears, expect the usual activists claiming the arrival of European settlers constituted an invasion. Picture: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

That there is currently a disproportionately larger number of MPs who claim Aboriginal identity than there are Aboriginal Australians in the general population is stark proof that Australian voters are not racists, no matter how vehemently the progressives make that claim.

As Australia Day nears, the usual ranting activists will again make the claim that the arrival of European settlers (albeit, initially convicts and their guards) constituted an invasion.

It goes without saying that the principal medium for spreading propaganda for the woke progressive agenda has been the taxpayer-funded ABC and the hordes of anti-social media bloggers.

Cardinal George Pell. Picture: Franco Origlia/Redferns

Cardinal George Pell’s death saw the public broadcaster indulge in what seemed to be a well-coordinated disinformation campaign, which mentioned his dying only in the context of rehashing the sexual abuse claims on which he was wrongfully convicted, as the High Court found so unequivocally unanimously.

But the ABC, as the driving force behind the Victorian police’s politically-driven campaign against the Cardinal and the false narratives that led to his wrongful conviction, has heavily invested in its war on the Christian religion.

Premier Dominic Perrottet’s naïve choice of a Nazi uniform to wear to his 21st birthday party 20 years ago –and two years before Prince Harry chose a similar outfit to another birthday party – sent some sections of the media into a frenzy.

His response though, unlike the hapless Harry, was honest, logical and clear.

“I think, life, as we go through life, we mature and we grow and we have different experiences that make us understand and appreciate the significance of various aspects of life and I, I’m not the person I was when I was 21,” he said.

A positive recognition that we learn through life and do not need to wallow in self-pity and self-recrimination to achieve a well-grounded maturity.