Intersectionality Prioritised Over Real Jobs in the Corona Capital
Western Victoria MP Bev McArthur used a Parliamentary Adjournment Debate to ask the Attorney General to abolish a position in her department that is currently being advertised as vacant.
Recently a new job vacancy has been advertised by the Victorian Government for the position of ‘Director, Inclusion and Intersectionality’ in the Department of Justice and Community Safety, offering an annual salary of up to $250,000.
The advertisement describes the role of the Director as “elevating and broadening the department’s approach to inclusion and intersectionality” and “developing and implementing strategies to ensure justice systems are inclusive and equitable.”
Mrs McArthur said, “This is all while, estimates suggest that between 250,000 and 400,000 Victorians will lose their jobs, potentially thousands of businesses will close, due to the Stage 4 lockdowns caused by Labor’s hotel quarantine debacle.”
“Anyone with any sense would think that the Labor Government would reconsider their obsession with far-left ideas like intersectionality that are at odds with meritocracy, after the disastrous decision to use a particular private security firm to operate hotel quarantine due to its accordance with ‘social inclusion’ policies.”
“But, like all ideologues, the Government seems to be sticking to its guns and will continue to entertain these out-of-touch ideas that clearly hinder governance and add to extra unnecessary government expenditure in this state.”
“Bureaucracy should not be focused on how to be the most ‘inclusive’, but instead how to most efficiently deliver services for taxpayers and how to stay out of individuals’ lives as much as possible.”
Mrs McArthur called on the Attorney General to “ensure this position is abolished, given the zero benefits that it provides to the state.”
18 August 2020