Mark Latham's Speech In Full

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Stop being Kaepernick-wannabe attention whores and send your message in a less disrespectful and divisive way. Simples!
I take it you didn't bother watching the video.

There was no boycott, they stood still during it, they just refused to sing it. There is nothing offensive about that.
 
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Right wing SJWs live for this issue.

It's the ultimate in conservative virtue signalling. The ultimate political correctness (patriotism) is made clear for all to see.
Of course both sides have their versions of PC. It is just significantly broader on one side.

The right: don't disrespect the country that you choose to live in, and all those who died for it.

The left: fly lgbt and aboriginal flags at every public building, criticising minorities is off limits (Goodes), no dressing up as someone of another cultural background, if you are right of centre you are a fashy nazi, social media corps can censor who they want, etc etc.

You are projecting an issue that the left hold the monopoly on.
 

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Mark Latham's maiden speech to the NSW parliament. It is an interesting read.
https://www.onenation.org.au/mandatory-reading-mark-lathams-maiden-speech/

Mark Latham has delivered his maiden speech to New South Wales Parliament. Alan Jones, radio veteran and former speechwriter in the office of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, said it was the “Most outstanding political speech I’ve ever read“.

You can read it in full below.

Mr President, Not far from where you sit, some 10 metres from the entrance to this old chamber, there’s a wonderfully imposing canvas.
It depicts the decisive moment in Australian history: the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove on 26th January 1788.
The painting by Algernon Talmage is called the Founding of Australia, a founding marked by the arrival of Western civilisation on this continent.
It’s an appropriate entrance statement for this place, the mother of legislative power and progress in Australia.
Despite attempts by both sides of politics to either abolish it or silence it, for nearly two centuries the Legislative Council has, by and large, been a civilising force in New South Wales.
Over the years, the ALP has expelled more of its MLCs for failing to vote for the Council’s abolition than are here representing Labor today.
Among conservatives, George Reid in 1895 dissolved the parliament on the single issue of Legislative Council obstruction, pledging (he said) to “clear the fossils” from a “rotten and corrupt” chamber.
And he hadn’t even met Eddie Obeid.
Crooks and scoundrels aside, this place has been true to Talmage’s painting.
It has honoured the founding principles of our nation: that progress is possible through parliamentary debate and deliberation; that in a land of hard work and meritocracy, every citizen can and should receive a fair go.
For all its pitfalls and failings, the Legislative Council has always redeemed itself in wanting to extend the reach of Western civilisation and advancement in Australia.
Until now.
Like so many parts of our politics that have changed quickly in recent times, there are voices here who do not believe in the virtues of the West, who do not acknowledge the nation-building achievements of our culture and our country.
It’s like a scene from The Life of Brian, a case of: What has Western civilisation done for us?
Only advanced healthcare and education; architecture, engineering, information technology, free speech and the rule of law.
In fact: this chamber, this parliament, in this city, all our public institutions and the material comforts we take for granted – none of them could exist without the greatness of the West.
Without the advances that began with the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution and continue to this day.
Yet still, among the Leftist elites, among the social engineers and cultural dietians, sneering at our civilisation and its achievements has become their new pastime.
They preach diversity but practice a suffocating cultural conformity, wanting everyone to be just like them.
They argue for inclusion but as soon as a Christian, a conservative, a libertarian, a nationalist, a working class larrikin, an outsider from the vast suburbs and regions of our nation disagrees with them, they crank up their PC-outrage machine to exclude them from society.
They are tolerant of everything except dissenting values and opinions – meaning, of course, they are tolerant of nothing that matters, only themselves.
This is the Leftist curse through the ages: the recurring history of those who so badly crave control over others, they lose control over themselves.
In their lust for authority, they lose their respect for the rights of others.
Like a scene from Orwell’s Animal Farm, the Green-Labor-Left has become the thing it originally opposed: elitist, would-be dictators taking away from working class communities the things these battlers value:
The right to speak their mind.
To say they love their country and want Australia Day to stay.
To practice their Christianity, openly and freely.
To send their children to school without the garbage of Safe Schools, Wear-It-Purple days, ‘HeadRest’ indoctrination and the other crackpot theories making some NSW classrooms more like a Hare Krishna meeting than actual education.
And when they go to work, the chance to do their job without being bombarded by employment quotas, ‘unconscious bias’ training and a long list of unspeakable, taboo words – scary, scary stuff, like ‘guys’ and ‘mums and dads’.
The New Left are the new primitives of our time: junking the importance of evidence, of recorded history, of biological science, to pretend that all parts of our lives (especially race, gender and sexuality) can be fluid, that everything we know and feel around us is, in fact, ‘socially constructed’.
Mr President, they’re peddling Fake News.
We haven’t been brainwashed by ‘capitalist hegemony’ as the post-modernists argue.
People know and understand the things they see and feel in their lives.
It’s called evidence.
Our personal characteristics and identities are fixed, not fluid.
With few exceptions, people are born either male or female.
We shouldn’t be confusing young people and risking their mental health by pushing gender fluidity upon them.
We shouldn’t be taking away from parents their essential role as the primary carers of their children – in matters personal and sexual.
We shouldn’t be changing the purpose of our education system: transforming schools from places of skill and academic attainment into gender fluidity factories.
Most of all, we shouldn’t be losing sight of the interests of mainstream, majority Australia.
In the last national census, for instance, 13 hundred Australians identified as transgender.
But to listen to the political and media coverage of this issue, you would think there were 13 million.
Mr President, Everywhere I travel, parents and grandparents, workers and communities, tell me how concerned they are about Australia’s direction.
They ask me, ‘What’s happened to our country; where has this nonsense come from?’
The answer is clear.
The Leftist project, then and now, is about control.
Having, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, lost the struggle for economic control, the Left got smarter.
It shifted from the Cold War to a culture war.
It moved from pursuing economic Marxism to pushing cultural Marxism.
Instead of trying to socialise the means of production, it’s now trying to socialise the means of individual expression and belief – our language, our values, our behaviour.
Instead of seeking revolution at the top of government, it has marched instead through our institutions – a tactic that’s harder to combat.
The elites have been remarkably successful in this cultural invasion.
Our abiding national traditions of free speech, merit selection, resilience and love of country are being lost, not just in the public sector – in schools, universities, public broadcasters, major political parties and government agencies – but also in large parts of corporate Australia and the commercial media.
The rest of us are the Resistance to this national takeover.
Our chief ally is evidence.
Evidence and human nature.
Through the power of reason and enlightenment, people want to have a say about the things that are important to them.
They want free speech.
They want freedom of religion and belief.
Australians are also a tough yet fair-minded people.
It comes from our origins in colonial times, the things depicted in Talmage’s painting.
The Australian story in settling a harsh and sometimes hostile continent on the other side of the world is one of the most remarkable in human history.
Leaders like Arthur Phillip and Lachlan Macquarie, in little more than a generation, turned a penal colony into a civilisation – building what has now become the best nation on Earth.
It was achieved through resilience and mateship – the Australian habit of toughing it out and treating others as equals.
Jack is as good as his master.
It’s in our nature to treat people as we find them – to judge them on their individual merit, their work ethic, their community contribution.
This is what makes identity politics – subdividing our people on the basis of race, gender and sexuality – so foreign to the Australian way.
Just as the old Soviet Union fell over because human nature wanted economic competition and individual wealth and excellence, I believe these new mutant strains of social control – post-modernism and identity politics – will also fail.
They run contrary to the nature and evidence of our lives.
Mr President, I ran for parliament to be part of the fightback for freedom and fairness.
NSW One Nation took 34 detailed policies to the election, including a detailed package for human rights reform.
We believe NSW needs new laws protecting freedom of speech, especially on university campuses where so much of academic and student freedom has been lost.
Sometimes we laugh at the absurdity of political correctness but at its core, it’s an insidious movement, a handbrake on liberty.
If you control someone’s language, you control a big part of their lives: how they interact with others, how they communicate in society, their feeling of belonging.
Like every other Australian, I own my own words, I know what I mean by them.
Like so many Australians, I refuse to allow my words to be controlled by strangers: by the elites with their confected outrage and PC-censorship.
In truth in society, offence is taken, not given.
It’s a personal choice, based on assumptions about what someone meant by their words.
Yet only the person speaking those words truly knows what was meant.
As the great John Cleese has pointed out, telling a joke about someone doesn’t mean we hate them.
We love the people we joke about – the Irish, the blondes, the gays, everyone – as they’ve helped to bring humour and joy into our lives.
The other problem with political correctness is in knowing what’s genuine and what’s not.
So much of the offenderati, the outrage industry, involves the fabrication of offence – saying that their feelings have been hurt solely for the reason of closing down their political opponents.
PC is riddled with these internal contradictions.
Let me give an example from this parliament.
Labor MPs are not allowed to say two words – ‘white flight’ – even though they are a truthful expression of what’s happening in Western Sydney, having been identified by Luke Foley.
It’s a sad day for democracy when MPs can’t talk about the evidence in their electorates.
Then last year in the Blue Mountains, when Michael Daley launched a wrong-headed attack on Asians with PhDs, the two Labor MPs in the room stood mute.
So the Labor leader who had it right – his words can’t be repeated, while the one who had it wrong went unchecked, for months on end.
Go figure.
NSW needs freedom of speech laws, even for its own MPs.
And also new laws for the protection of religious freedom.
Mr President, as I’m sure you appreciate, many migrants came to Australia to escape religious persecution.
Now they are saying the problems in their home country have followed them here.
I’m not a Christian but I recognise the vital contribution of Christianity to our civilisation: its vast social and charitable work; its teaching of right and wrong in civil society.
Mr President, I stand with Israel Folau.
In his own private time away from his job playing football, he’s a preacher at his community church and naturally, he quotes the Bible.
He believes, as millions of people have believed for thousands of years, that sinners go to Hell.
As per his valid religious faith, he loves the sinner but condemns the sin.
Yet for his beliefs, his Christianity, he is not allowed to play rugby, to chase the pigskin around the park.
How did our State and our nation ever come to this?
I was on Folau’s list of sinners, more than once actually.
But as I don’t believe in Hell, there was no way I could take offence.
Those claiming outrage have fabricated their position solely for the purpose of censorship.
This is not an argument about diversity.

The bit that stands true throughout time is

“The left’s desire to control others, they lose control of themselves”

Be it the far right or the left, people that want to control others are dangerous.....extremely dangerous
 
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They turned their back on the anthem in EU Parliament as a protest. The elected institution that they are being paid to be at but hate. You know, an oxymoron.
It's ok, because they're trying to leave the EU. People are welcome to disrespect the Australian flag/anthem, provided that they do it on their way out of the country - on a one way ticket!
 

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It's ok, because they're trying to leave the EU. People are welcome to disrespect the Australian flag/anthem, provided that they do it on their way out of the country - on a one way ticket!
But it is their elected institution - at least have respect for the people paying their wages.

Not surprised you flip flop around though. Anything to suit the agenda.
 

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