ABC Should Stick to its Knitting and Stop Fuelling the Cancel Culture Crowd
On Monday, the ABC published an article asking whether ‘statues which 'don't respect traditional custodians' be removed from around Canberra?’, promoting a campaign which contends that a statue of King George V should be removed from Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle.
Western Victoria MP Bev McArthur has questioned whether “the public broadcaster should be in the business of promoting radical campaigns to tear down statues, particularly those of our former heads of state.”
“The ABC which depends on generous taxpayer largesse for its existence should be sticking to its knitting, by providing unbiased news reports and not indulging the ‘cancel culture’, virtue signallers and ‘denial demonstrators’."
"Such encouragement just results in the defacement of historic statues, such as those in the Prime Ministers Avenue at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens or Captain Cook in Sydney.”
“Taxpayers’ money shouldn’t be used to encourage or attempt to legitimise the extreme views or radical agenda of the ‘cancel culture’ crowd who appear determined to erase all our national history under the false guise of social justice.”
“The public broadcaster serves an important role in rural and regional communities, particularly in times of bushfire and other natural disasters, and should stick to that rather indulging themselves in out-of-touch conjectures emanating from inner-city suburbs or the Canberra bubble.”
9 July 2020