In one of the more memorable scenes from the film Amazing Grace (one of my favourite movies), William Wilberforce, the famous anti-slavery campaigner, stands on the deck of a slave ship trying to convince a boatload of aristocrats of the evils of the slave-trade....
Inclusion is Immature
If there was any part of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda that I could support, it would be Inclusion. Unlike Diversity and Equity, which are logically flawed ideals that pit themselves directly against undeniable realities about life on planet earth,...
Diversity is a Trojan Horse
In January President Joe Biden announced that he would be nominating a black woman to fill a vacancy on the US Supreme Court. When I initially heard that, I thought he was starting a game of ‘who am I?’ and was listening eagerly for the next clue, but it soon became...
Can the religious discrimination bill protect us from ideological purges?
I was waiting in the foyer of a multinational oil and gas company’s Australian headquarters, the twenty-seventh floor of a high-rise in Brisbane. There was plenty to look at while I waited. Artful displays of early-era petrol bowsers acknowledged the past, and a...