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When the Left Crunches Numbers
It need hardly be stated that the Left, its operatives and their useful idiots have come to control almost every institution in Australia not specifically established to combat their influence and machinations. From the Australia Council, which recently stripped Quadrant of its paltry stipend while lavishing largesse on favoured publications, to the defence establishment, where social re-engineering now marches to a military beat, we have seen one conquest and colonisation after another. When the Macquarie Dictionary’s presiding etymologists convene an emergency meeting to redefine “misogynist” in order to aid Julia Gillard’s slandering of Tony Abbott, you know there is no area of life, thought or public debate immune to the poison of the authorised narrative. If you attend NRL or AFL matches and wonder why sporting events must be these days be played under rainbow flags, the pall of smoking ceremonies or with green-clad umpires, there’s your answer.
With that much influence, the…
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