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• Cancel Culture

Cancel culture is the increasing practice of withdrawing support for (cancelling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something opponents disagree with.

Cancel culture will divide us
Peter KurtiAugust 20, 2020Ideas@theCentre

One threat confronting Australia, in this year of threats, really does have the potential to...

Cancelled! How ideological cleansing threatens Australia
Peter KurtiAugust 17, 2020AP13

‘Cancel culture’ campaigns in Australia are intended to erase elements of our history and to...

Free Thought is Burning
Monica Wilkie, Dave RubinJuly 28, 2020

The debate over cancel culture and the culture wars continues to rage. We were delighted...

Moral terror
Tom SwitzerJuly 23, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

You know we live in a strange world when classical liberal think tanks, such as...

Linguistic Humbug
Monica WilkieJuly 23, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

The culture war — and its current battlefront ‘cancel culture’ — is exacerbated because the...

On Liberty EP16 Saving the marketplace of ideas
Salvatore Babones, Janet AlbrechtsenJuly 23, 2020On Liberty

On Liberty returns, for season 2, with Janet Albrechtsen. In her latest column for The...

Corporate Virtue Signalling: How to Stop Big Business from Meddling in Politics
Jeremy SammutApril 30, 2019

CLICK HERE TO BUY HARDCOPY   Snowflake- A very sensitive person. Someone who is easily...

Taking Back Control: Restoring Universalism in the Age of Identity Politics
Amanda StokerApril 16, 2019OP170

It can feel safer avoiding conversations on social issues that can be landmines at the...

Curbing Corporate Social Responsibility: Preventing Politicisation – and Preserving Pluralism – in Australian Business
Jeremy SammutAugust 21, 2018AP2

The unprecedented part that leading that Australian companies played in the same-sex marriage campaign in...

John Howard: A Conversation on Culture
John Howard OM AC, Tom Switzer, Jeremy SammutJuly 26, 2018OP166

Based on the remarks made by former Prime Minister John Howard at the launch of...

Wrongthink will be spellchecked
Monica WilkieJune 18, 2020Ideas@theCentre

In response to the BLM movement, comedy, film and beer have been ‘cancelled’ due to...

Censoring history makes the past impossible to grasp
Tom Switzer, Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJune 15, 2020Sydney Morning Herald

Much of history is a story of unintended consequences. What began as a protest at...

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