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Frank
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The Sydney lockdown has exposed the soft underbelly of Australian multiculturalism: people who either don’t understand the Health Orders or don’t want to comply with them. It has flushed out the strength of the cash economy in these parts of Western Sydney: people who look at QR codes and contact-tracing like that’s the real plague. We’re not in Palm Beach anymore, Gladys.
There’s a tight correlation between the map of Sydney’s Covid cases and its ethnic demographic map. The same thing happened with Melbourne’s second wave last year. These problems have been allowed to fester for 30 years, by both sides of politics. Inevitably, the modern failure of multiculturalism was going to bite Australia on the bum, and now it has.
In the millions of words written and spoken in the media about the NSW disaster, no one has dared to speak this inconvenient truth. The woke-PC threat of censorship has denied the people of our state an honest assessment of what’s gone wrong. The only comment from the government was when the Health Minister Brad Hazzard briefly lamented how people from ‘other backgrounds’ were not following the Health Orders.
How have Berejiklian’s policies failed so badly? One of the things that’s surprised me since coming into the NSW Parliament two-and-a-half years ago is the woke virtue-signalling and self-indulgent identity politics that defines the culture of the NSW public sector. I call it the Jim Betts Syndrome, named after the former British Communist party member who now heads the NSW Planning Department. There isn’t a LGBTIQ staff committee, harmony council, reconciliation talkfest, de-gendered language guide, Bruce Pascoe book club or Indigenous urban design fantasy that Betts hasn’t embraced. In fact, this is the bulk of his working day, soaking up his diary commitments until 4.55pm when he has just five minutes left to do the job NSW taxpayers want from him: approving high-quality development and employment projects.
Betts is not an anomaly. He’s indicative of a workplace culture that’s exclusively about the leftist politics of senior management, instead of the people of NSW and the customer service and value-for-money they expect.
Gladys thinks so highly of Betts she has promoted him to be the next head of the NSW Public Service and Premier’s Department. She might as well declare every state agency to be a Greens branch meeting. From this culture, the government has been ill-equipped to deal with the crisis of multiculturalism and Covid in Western Sydney. From day one, it needed to send the NSW police door-to-door in the hotspot suburbs, shocking people into compliance. Instead of this hard-policing strategy, the Premier’s daily press conferences have recycled useless PC rhetoric about ‘diversity being our strength’. Gladys is as woke as they come. She would have a heart attack if she had to say the things I’ve written in this column.
Memo to Sydney: Want to know the real reason why, for over 50 days, you have been under house arrest, losing your jobs and losing your minds? There are actually a couple of viruses circulating: the nasty one from Wuhan but also one from a place called Woke. Politically, it’s just as debilitating, paralysing the capacity of governments to implement practical, hard-headed solutions in Western Sydney.
Go Multiculti Woke - go lockdown.
Multiculturalism = Bwianism.
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