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# Australia’s ‘Woke’ State Exceeds Even My LOW Expectations
- URL: https://goodoil.news/australias-woke-state-exceeds-even-my-low-expectations/
- Published: 2019-11-25T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-25T09:37:02.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

Was it really only two months ago that I wrote that the Australian [state of Victoria](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/will-victorias-luck-run-out-this-summer/?ref=goodoil.news) was staring down the barrel of disastrous summer blackouts thanks to its “progressive” energy policies?

**Because guess what?**

> Thousands of \[Victorian\] homes have been without power on Thursday due to extreme heat. There were 5800 Powercor customers without power at 10.30am, but the figure was down to 4000 by 11.30am.  
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> “Forecasted extreme weather today may lead to power outages in your area,” the energy provider said on Twitter…  
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> [theage.com.au/national/victoria/blackouts-flights-delayed-trams-disrupted-in-extreme-weather](https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/blackouts-flights-delayed-trams-disrupted-in-extreme-weather-20191121-p53cpj.html?ref=goodoil.news)

“Extreme weather”? Or the fact that the state has busily shut down all its reliable coal-fired power generators?

Meanwhile, Australia’s own [little Venezuela](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/11/australias-little-venezuela-its-army-of-public-servants/?ref=goodoil.news) is attracting all the wrong kind of attention from the nation’s spooks.

> ASIO is monitoring and advising the Andrews government on its controversial Belt and Road agreement, amid a dramatic surge in deals that have helped create a $10bn Chinese-Victorian export market.  
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> Victorian Premier Daniel ­Andrews has revealed Australia’s peak intelligence agency is monit­oring the initiative \[…\] Last year, Victoria became the only Australian state to sign a memorandum of understanding on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Victorian premier, socialist Daniel Andrews might be cock-a-whoop about the rivers of yuan flowing into his coffers, but more sober heads are sounding the warning bells.

> Australian Strategic Policy Institu­te analyst Alex Joske warned that local and state governments had insufficient foreign policy ­experience and China expertis­e to properly manage deals such as Belt and Road. “I’m primarily thinking about their ability to control any ­attempts at political influence which come with investment deals under the agreement and also just their ability to effectively evaluate some of these deals,” he said.  
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> Mr Joske cited Monash University’s $10m research agreement with the state-owned Commer­cial Aircraft Corporation of China, the signing of which was witnessed and welcomed by Mr Andrews in China in October, a week after the company had been linked to a global industrial espionage campaign.  
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> “I think the Premier’s statements around that agreement ­really indicated that the government hadn’t done enough due diligence and wasn’t fully aware of what kind of a company COMAC is,” Mr Joske said.  
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> Recently retired ASIO boss Duncan Lewis warned this week that the Chinese government was seeking to “take over” Australia’s political system through “insid­ious” foreign interference operations.  
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> [https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/asio-keeping-tabs-on-states-china-deal/](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/asio-keeping-tabs-on-states-china-deal/news-story/6ca25acf27686f36373ebd414f0fbf6f?ref=goodoil.news)

The sort of operations that hand over Aldi bags full of cash to state Labor politicians?

But, hey, who cares if Victoria can’t keep the lights on and faces a spiralling public sector budget? At least they’re “woke”.

> It is the almost messianic zeal Andrews has adopted on social policy that has captivated the political and chattering classes \[…\]this supercharged progressivism is also influencing governments around Australia on seminal issues such as how to die and how to recognise First Australians.  
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> The Andrews era social policy reform is exhaustive and includes voluntary euthanasia, treaty, a ban on gay conversion therapy, medicinal cannabis, an inner-city safe-injection drug facility, a dramatic and ongoing attempt to address gender imbalances in the judiciary and on boards, a ban on plastic bags, a mental health royal commission, growing financial support for the LGBTI community and aggressive support for the Safe Schools anti-bullying campaign…  
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> [https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/andrews-agenda-keeps-libs-out-in-the-cold-in-victoria/](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/andrews-agenda-keeps-libs-out-in-the-cold-in-victoria/news-story/08a65a764639bdf3ecb2324aaea393bb?ref=goodoil.news)

Except that Andrews’ support for [Safe Schools](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/06/time-to-ditch-the-creepy-safe-schools/?ref=goodoil.news) – which is really a Queer Theory-indoctrination program masquerading as “anti-bullying” – doesn’t extend as far as subjecting his own children to its Marxist nonsense, which is compulsory in state schools. Nope: Andrews votes with his feet and sends his own precious offspring to a non-state Catholic school.

**But then, the nomenklatura are like that.**