Does Grandstand organise cricket matches? Does ABC News organise bus crashes or bombings in Gaza? Of course not! In February Aunty took it into her collective head to organise – not just film and broadcast, but actually organise – a drag queen story time event.
Not so much ABC mission creep as mission gallop!
The Rockdale Library incident took the ABC’s allegiance to gender-identity ideology quite a few leagues beyond its usual manifestations of membership of ACON’s AWEI scheme, allowing/encouraging its employees to moonlight at ACON events, having a drag queen in costume as a panellist on current affairs shows, suppressing news that might be disquieting for gender-identity zealots, and blatantly endorsing puberty blockers etc.
Was this proposed event impartial? Certainly not. Drag queen story time events are massively controversial . . .
Finally, does the Rockdale Library fiasco show that the ABC’s under the influence of powerful outside lobbyists? It sure does. And we mean ACON, whose extensive interference in the ABC’s workplace culture and content has been irrefutably demonstrated.
The new ABC Chair, Kim Williams, said on 24 March: ‘If you don’t want to reflect a view that aspires to impartiality, don’t work at the ABC’ and inveighed against an ‘addictive focus’ at the ABC that ‘enables small cohorts to … have an exaggerated influence over the process of decision-making’.
Honestly, Mr Willams, that sounds to us like pompous twaddle – to use a term you yourself once employed – as long as ABCQueer is permitted to rampage unchecked and the organisation dismisses wholesale the very valid criticisms brought to bear upon it by members of the public. Good luck dealing with the ‘small cohorts’, though!
Source: Mission Gallop – Women’s Cooee