
Conversations, with Peter Costello AC, Former Treasurer of Australia
John Anderson: Conversations
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The Rejection of Identity Politics in the West
Identity politics is no real thing as an individual. Once you are born into one of these identities, that is it for life. You are either a presser or a victim and you play out your little assigned role under the new identity politics. Oz Gimmons made the comment that he thought were at a civilisations moment. He said in general terms there have been many civilisations in the ages. All of them have run on the fuel of a common commitment to those values. It seems to me that we have seen a very solid rejection of the foundation of thinking in the West. I will be a fuel for taking some people forward. They are those who actually believe in it and
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