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In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) ‘A JOBS OR SEXUALITY-LED RECOVERY? Worried about COVID in NSW or skyrocketing unemployment? Maybe you’ve lost your job or your business has had to close? Worry no more, as Gladys is on the job with a ready made answer. You might think Ms Berejiklian has ordered the NSW public service to be working around-the-clock on health protection and job creation, leading the nation in economic recovery. She has got them working alright, but with a dazzling new insight, a policy innovation no one else has thought of. We can solve all our problems through Sexuality. Tomorrow at 2pm the NSW Public Service will down tools to launch a new LGBTIQ Network, with a new name and logo. Here are the details of the event, sent out by the Department of Premier and Cabinet: https://lnkd.in/gVTuvCv Forget about job creation and small business support, Gladys has had our NSW public servants engrossed in the what really matters: a Naming Competition for the new network. I sent in an entry: WOTA-MOST-BS, a new acronym for Wasting Our Time And Money On Sexuality Trivia BS. But I fear it won’t be the winner. There will be something much more creative, perhaps rhyming with virus. A New Universal Sexuality has a certain ring to it. On the serious side, it’s hard to believe this is the Premier’s priority. What an arrogant indulgence, to have our public servants using their work-time on pointless identity politics. It’s a slap in the face for every person in NSW who has lost their job or lost their business. When Gladys says its “all about jobs” what she really means is that, under her government, public servants with guaranteed jobs couldn’t care less about private sector jobs. Tuesday’s indulgence is made worse by the preponderance of these identity units already. In the NSW Planning Department, for instance, they have an existing LGBTIQ Network, a Harmony Council, Diversity and Inclusion Council, Aboriginal Cultural Team and Australian Diversity Council membership (the wacky outfit trying to enforce David Morrison’s ban on the word ‘guys’ in the workplace). The Planning Department is headed by Jim Betts, one of the speakers on Tuesday, who is obsessed by this stuff. His real job should be to fast-track and approve development and employment-creating projects in NSW, but seemingly, he spends more time on Diversity than Economic Growth. The NSW Government says it’s going deep into deficit, but in June, as part of Betts’ empire building, he advertised for a Manager, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy in the Planning Department on $164,000 pa. The Government’s policy is ‘No pay rise for NSW police officers or paramedics’ but they have money for this position, designated to work with the Harmony and Diversity Councils. There is no peer-reviewed academic study anywhere in the world showing that ‘Diversity’ improves staff productivity and output. It’s mostly a McKinseys invention to make money from their consultancies. You will see in the picture for Tuesday’s event, people holding up the slogan ‘Reflecting our Communities’. This is the argument NSW Ministers put for this rubbish agenda: our public service must look like the community it serves. At Budget Estimates, I asked Treasury officials (who have also drunk the Diversity Koolaid) how many homeless, unemployed people or public housing tenants they have recruited to be ‘Reflecting Our Communities’ and they said none; they contact the poor in NSW by talking to NCOSS (the social welfare peak body). How pathetic. I asked Betts’ Minister Rob Stokes the same question on the Notice Paper, and he said they don’t collect that kind of employment data. So it’s a Selective Diversity and Inclusion policy: only benefiting the sexuality groups that matter to Betts, not the poor and disadvantaged in NSW. Gay or transgender? You’re in the loop. Unemployed or a public housing tenant? Forget about it. The Left complain about ‘colonisation’ but under the likes of Betts, the NSW Public Service has been colonised on the basis of sexuality. The LGBTIQWTF community is 2-3 percent of the NSW population, yet receives red carpet treatment in the ‘Inclusion’ agenda. Poor people are 10 percent of NSW and they don’t get a look in. Premier Berejiklian has not only personally endorsed this agenda, but taken it further. After last year’s election, she issued ‘Premier’s Priorities’ for female and Indigenous employment quotas in the public service (even though women already make up two-thirds of that workforce).NSW has special employment programs for women, Aborigines and refugees but not early school leavers, the homeless or public housing tenants. The Left-wing Public Service Commission runs special taxpayer-funded ‘diversity’ training sessions for staff, including the zany notion of ‘unconscious bias’ – that we have voices in our heads telling us to discriminate against people. By this system, a white male public housing tenant in NSW, who wants nothing more than to be treated equally and have a fair chance of getting a public service job, is not only discriminated against in NSW Government employment processes. But if he did fluke a job with them, he then has to go to training sessions telling him he’s the one who is racist, sexist and homophobic. We need to understand the sickness of what’s going on here. Ruling elites like Berejiklian and Don Harwin (the NSW Minister for the Public Service) have constructed a system that not only discriminates against people not like them (male and straight) but then justifies it by blaming the victims of the identity discrimination they created. The madness and bias goes further. Jim Betts is also a member of the NSW Construction Industry Culture Standard Committee, which is drawing up new guidelines for construction companies wanting to win contracts from the NSW Government (new schools, hospitals, roads etc). He’s insisting on companies displaying ‘gender equity’ in their employment policies, even though not many women see a career on (dangerous) construction sites; plus an end to workplace ’sexism’ such as ‘girlie pictures’ in the men’s change rooms. Otherwise the companies won’t be eligible to tender for NSW Government projects. It’s another personal self-indulgence. The NSW Budget is going into heavy deficit and all that matters is value for money – the cost effectiveness of tenders, not Betts’ identity political obsessions, costing companies and taxpayers money for no gain in the efficiency of the construction projects. The best job creator in NSW, one single decision that would help massively? Sack Jim Betts. This is what the NSW Coalition Government has come to: obsessed with LGBTIQ units and ‘girlie pictures’ on the walls of building sites, rather than professional, efficient public service outcomes for the people of NSW. Menzies must be rolling in his grave, wondering what he created.’ https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/?ref=page_internal