Title: Transgenderism in Australia's political economy
Abstract: Justice or smokescreen: where do the interests lie in the transgender debate? Nothing beats the zealotry of Australia's corporate elite when it comes to pursuing causes of no broad social consequence; they form an essential smokescreen behind which companies can do business. Corporate Australia's future depends on the country's population staying perpetually preoccupied with, and distracted by, 'justice' crusades that pose no threat to its oligopolies. Banking, supermarket, telecommunications and insurance markets are much more concentrated in Australia than in economies of similar size, and, as a proportion of national income, wealth under private control in Australia has risen from 350 to 550 per cent over the past thirty years. This situation arises because a minority of rich Australians act against the interests of the majority, even if their actions remain hidden in plain sight. They injure the greater good in various ways: for example, by stealing a billion dollars from banking customers through charging fees-for-no-service, looting taxpayers of two billion dollars through rorting a deregulated vocational-education sector, paying executives multimillion-dollar salaries, and by ignoring corporate regulators and acting in contempt of the country's courts. Less overtly, they distort public life through promoting mass diversionary spectacles. The latest of these focuses on transgenderism: a campaign for laws and policies to be changed to accommodate individuals who identify as members of the opposite sex. Corporate Australia now jumps on transgenderism's bandwagon, and stands to cynically profit from its smokescreen.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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