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I attended two of the 7 days of the Adelaide Writers Week, my first time. I enjoyed it, but bloody hell it was almost entirely left leaning. With commentators taking every opportunity to have a dig at anything from NO voters of the Voice to Menzies and everything else in-between that leans right.

ABC heaven.
 
JohnDe said:
I attended two of the 7 days of the Adelaide Writers Week, my first time. I enjoyed it, but bloody hell it was almost entirely left leaning. With commentators taking every opportunity to have a dig at anything from NO voters of the Voice to Menzies and everything else in-between that leans right.

ABC heaven.
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Go to a meeting of the IPA to recuperate. :)
 
Would be interested in your differential analysis between the centre right IPA and extreme left writers week folks, Horace.

Let's leave tribalism out of it and analyse the ideologies.
 
wayneL said:
Would be interested in your differential analysis between the centre right IPA and extreme left writers week folks, Horace.

Let's leave tribalism out of it and analyse the ideologies.
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They are both on the extremes, I would not call the IPA centrist, they go a lot further than moderate Conservatives.
 
They are not "extreme" right policies. Right of center maybe, but not extreme.

What else do you have?
 
SirRumpole said:
No use playing semantics, I'm slightly further Left than your good self, so what seems extreme to me doesn't seem that way to you.
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Yes it's a subjective assessment, but there must be some degree of objectivity, especially in the public arena... and especially when using the adjective "extreme" or "hard" right.

Being to the right of Pol Pot, does not make one "extreme,".
 
wayneL said:
Yes it's a subjective assessment, but there must be some degree of objectivity, especially in the public arena... and especially when using the adjective "extreme" or "hard" right.

Being to the right of Pol Pot, does not make one "extreme,".
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So what would you call extreme Left. Does it exist in this country? I agree its an subjective term.

I think the fact that its doubtful that either the IPA or the ABC would ever win government makes them more extreme than the majority of voters. :)
 
SirRumpole said:
So what would you call extreme Left. Does it exist in this country? I agree its an subjective term.

I think the fact that its doubtful that either the IPA or the ABC would ever win government makes them more extremeeners than the majority of voters. :)
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Okay, my opinion:

Economically, in general, don't see extreme left practice in Australia. Though the ideology does exist in the Greens. Thankfully, they don't have the cards on the table.

In social policy we... and the West in general... Have gone a long way down that road:

Postmodernism
Critical theory
Critical race theory
Gender ideology
DEI
Economic equity
Open borders/ cultural relativism
Replacement theory
Anti white propaganda
etc etc etc

In the establishment of the above, there is a strong movement to implement Marxist economic theory, via this back door.
 
wayneL said:
Okay, my opinion:

Economically, in general, don't see extreme left practice in Australia. Though the ideology does exist in the Greens. Thankfully, they don't have the cards on the table.

In social policy we... and the West in general... Have gone a long way down that road:

Postmodernism
Critical theory
Critical race theory
Gender ideology
DEI
Economic equity
Open borders/ cultural relativism
Replacement theory
Anti white propaganda
etc etc etc

In the establishment of the above, there is a strong movement to implement Marxist economic theory, via this back door.
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I agree that those social policies are infiltrating society to a disturbing degree, but I can't really see Marxist economic policy coming along with it. Both sides of politics want to cut taxes rather than raising them and Labor these days (and in the past with Hawke and Keating) were keen to sell off government assets and to deregulate markets.

Some of us may think they went too far.
 
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