Fight for the rights side of Oz
AFTER the same-sex marriage plebiscite, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull famously said: “The people are our masters, they are the boss.”
And this: “Whatever your views may be, we must respect the voice of the people.”
But in this attempt at humility, he really revealed himself to be insincere and two-faced.
It’s obvious that he, and plenty of others at all levels of government, only consider themselves beholden to the people when it comes to left-wing causes and progressive minorities.
When mainstream Australians start complaining about crime, political correctness, immigration, free speech, mining, nanny state laws and red tape, politicians run for cover.
The latest lunacy is volunteers at the Commonwealth Games being told they can’t say “ladies and gentlemen” so as not to offend transgender people. The uproar from the general public has been deafening, but where are the politicians now their so-called “bosses” are screaming? Nowhere.
You don’t need a plebiscite to gauge public opinion, just log on to Facebook and check the comments on news stories. That information is as raw as it gets, it’s free, and it’s accessible 24-hours a day.
Most comments on this Commonwealth Games madness – and other examples of political correctness – show people are sick of being dictated to by a small number of change activists and the politicians, judges and commentators who support them.
Finding hard figures on the number of transgender people in Australia is tough, but one estimate is that there are 18,000 students in Australia who identify as transgender.
If you double that figure so you include the possible number of adults who are transgender, you get .15 per cent of the population.
So Games volunteers are being told to endorse an ideology that has no scientific basis and one which they will most likely have a strong personal opposition to, just in case fewer than one in 100 people get upset.
In a free society, you should be allowed to tattoo your face, push wine corks through your earlobes and change your gender.
But to then demand that mainstream society alters its standards, speech, customs, beliefs and rules to suit you is not reasonable.
Yet our elected leaders, virtue-signalling corporations, teachers and lecturers believe the opposite.
Using public toilets, dealing with people calling you the wrong pronoun, no longer being able to play some sports, and many other factors should be considered before going down a radical path.
But now people are rushing into unconventional territory and demanding everyone else change also. That’s not how the real world works.
Professor Jordan Peterson in Canada is one of many leading the worldwide backlash against political correctness and restrictions on speech. He is a true defender of the majority, unlike our politicians who only pretend to serve the majority.
If politicians genuinely held themselves accountable to the people, there would be instant action on mining, farming and development in North Queensland, big changes to immigration, and an abandonment of political correctness, ill-informed climate change policies and inane nanny statism. We’d also all be allowed to climb Ayers Rock.
Under their watch – and by ignoring average people for decades – Australia has gone from the country of the fair go, to a place where anyone with an idea is slapped with 100 reasons why they can’t realise it.
Developers, business owners and entrepreneurs are being held back by overregulation, high taxes and clueless bureaucrats.
You also have the majority who obey the law being penalised because a minority break the law.
Just look at the new regulations on codeine sales, draconian liquor laws and onerous environmental restrictions. These represent the height of government overreach and cannot be tolerated any longer.
For decades, society has been dragged to the left and we’ve been dictated to by people who claim they know better. The most noteworthy politicians making any noise about giving the silent majority a voice are Senator Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives and Senator David Leyonhjelm. They deserve to be heard and supported.