10th February 2021 | 13:28

Cancel Culture is a growing, malignant disease that will remove our valued traditions and sow growing dissent.

In Australia, views that are at odds with progressive or woke causes are silenced. Demands for censorship of the politically Incorrect are coming from senior politicians and representatives of the left, academe, mainstream media and a host of organizations, many of which promote disinformation and division.

Deconstruction of history, re-education of children and the masses to accept radical theories of race and gender, Big Tech and State censorship and divided, unhappy communities should be rejected.

In the United States, radical race-based, social justice and criminal “reforms” are being imposed, along with threats from the new administration to hunt down supporters of the previous Administration and censor “disinformation” via a new Federal Agency. Collusive and extensive censorship by Big Tech and mainstream media, and social media manipulation go unhindered. Violence and Crime are spiraling out of control in US cities that have long been governed by Democrats.

Is this “only in America” and why aren’t Australian politicians and community leaders engaging more actively in the Culture Wars and protecting Australian traditions, free speech and individual liberties?

We catch up with Prof Peter Kurti, Director of Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Pogram at The Centre for Independent Studies.

Peter Kurti is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture at Charles Sturt University. He has written extensively about issues of religion, liberty, and civil society in Australia, and appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio. In addition to having written many newspaper articles, he is also the author of The Tyranny of Tolerance: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia, and Euthanasia: Putting the Culture to Death?, both published by Connor Court. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.