Commentary
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is right to say that Australians are “sick of walking on eggshells” over what the media has pre-emptively declared controversial topics.
Morrison’s comments followed a malicious campaign to scour the social media history of Katherine Deves for evidence of what the overly sensitive regard as offensive comments.
Deves was the leader of the group “Save Women’s Sport,” which seeks to preserve biology-based standards for entry into female sports. She has described the controversial practice of gender surgery on adolescents as rendering them “surgically mutilated and sterilised.”
But despite the prime minister’s principled declaration that Deves should not be “cancelled” for her views, it was his own communications minister, Paul Fletcher, who recently promised to flood the internet with eggshells.
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