Scott Morrison has finally started to fight back against identity politics

Scott Morrison has run from the culture wars in the past, but he’s finally started to fight back against identity politics and he’s got a way to go.

Hallelujah! Scott Morrison has finally been converted. He’s now joined the crusade against the identity politics that divides us into tribes, making people more eager to claim they’re victims than take responsibility.

“You are more than your gender, your race, your ethnicity, your religion, your language group, your age,” the Prime Minister told a Jewish group at the weekend.

He’s right, of course. The question now is why it’s taken him years to fight back.

Until now, Morrison has run from the culture wars. In 2017, he even sneered that freedom of speech “doesn’t create one job”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has previously run from the culture wars. Picture: Gary Ramage

And when militant anti-church reporters and activists — led by the ABC — scapegoated Cardinal George Pell as a child rapist, Morrison said not one word in Pell’s support, even when the High Court finally freed the innocent man from jail.

But now Morrison has learned that the culture war does threaten one job — his own.

Feminist extremists this year rocked his government with claims that his party and the parliament fostered a “rape culture” — even though police have not yet laid one rape charge against any of his staff or colleagues.

Morrison himself is also being mocked — again by many on the ABC — for being a Christian, and is finally becoming a culture warrior, demanding we judge people as individuals, not members of some group.

I welcome this Damascene conversion. But to be convinced it’s not more spin, I want Morrison to match words with deeds.

Let him now stop pushing race politics. Let him drop his plan for “the Voice” — a body for Aborigines to advise parliament. Aboriginal Australians, like all citizens, already have a voice. It’s called parliament.

Let Morrison also stop kowtowing to feminist radicals, even declaring Foreign Minister Marise Payne his “prime minister for women”.

And let him now scrap the proposed changes to the national curriculum that will turn our schools into racial indoctrination centres, with students forced to call Aborigines “First Nation Australians” instead, a term containing both a lie and implied political demand.

The lie: There was an Aboriginal “nation” in Australia before the British “invasion”. The demand: we must therefore sign a treaty that formalises a racial divide.

To hear Morrison finally criticise the identity politics that’s dividing us and dumbing us down was a good start.

But it is mere spin if not followed by action.