DEI GG Hits a New Low

Australia’s current Governor-General is yet another object lesson in the grotesque dangers of diversity hiring. Sam Mostyn has spent her entire career with her snout in the DEI trough. She’s never built a business or risked her own money getting an enterprise off the ground. She’s only ever leeched off the public purse, courtesy of the Labor party, or off businesses built by other people. She’s the quintessential HR Karen.

And she’s dragging the office of Governor-General into the mud of Queer Theory grooming.

Governor-General Sam Mostyn faces growing calls to abandon her patronage of the powerful LGBTIQ+ lobby group Equality Australia after it argued in the Federal Court against the right of biological women to have female-only spaces.

Ms Mostyn declined to answer multiple questions from the Australian about her patronage in the wake of Equality Australia’s support for transgender woman man Roxanne Tickle in her his landmark discrimination case against Giggle app founder Sall Grover.

As I’ve been reporting, this is a case with huge ramifications. If ‘Tickle’, a man who looks like a bulldog in a wig, wins his case, it will cement Australia’s place as a legal clown world. Leaving aside the problem of male creepers invading women’s spaces, it will give legal status to such absurd claims as that men can get pregnant and that sex is not a biological fact

It also calls into grave question the status of the Governor-General’s office.

Under the strict rules set out by the Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General, patronage must “pose no reputational risk to the office or governor-­general” and the organisation must not “promote the governor-general as patron or imply any endorsement of a position or action” […]

Former deputy prime minister John Anderson told the Australian: “I truly believe that the role of governors-general should involve impartiality, and patronage of lobby groups is something that I would think is actually quite troubling.”

Mostyn has gone to ground and is refusing to answer media queries.

Ms Mostyn declined to answer any of 10 questions posed by the Australian about her patronage of Equality Australia, including whether the group represented “the things that unite Australia as a nation”, one of the stated roles of the governor-general’s community engagements.

Ms Mostyn also did not respond to queries about whether Equality Australia had consulted her, as required by the policy, on “activity that could be construed as fundraising, advocacy or any activity that could be considered beyond the publicly accepted role of the governor-general”.

The virulent lobbying by Equality Australia also opens questions about activist lobby groups exploiting so-called ‘charitable’ status.

The organisation has been using an HIV/AIDS charity to collect tax-deductible donations after its own bid for Deductible Gift Recipient status was rejected by the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission and the Federal Court specifically because it was an advocacy group, not one that was providing benevolent ­relief.

As put to Mostyn by the Australian, this seems a clear violation of the Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General policies around patronage. Specifically, that In seeking the Governor-General as Patron, an organisation must demonstrate… a significant record of achievement and ethical behaviour and sound financial management and strong governance arrangements.

Mostyn has refused to answer this and other questions, including whether she intends to review her patronage of Equality Australia.

Her office’s mealy mouthed response instead prattled that “patronage does not include any… endorsement of positions or responsibility for their activity”.

The claim that the Governor-General has not endorsed Equality Australia activities appears to be at odds with Ms Mostyn’s announcement of the role, in which she says that it is her “privilege … as patron to support Equality Australia in bringing an end to discrimination and injustice”.

In the statement and video, highlighted on Equality Australia’s website, the Governor-­General says: “I look forward to amplifying Equality Australia’s mission to build an equal Australia that is fair and inclusive for all LGBTIQ+ people, their families and their communities.”

So, not just a trougher, but obviously deceitful.

This is what happens when a PM who still carries on like a student activist appoints a lifetime DEI hire as the Crown’s representative in Australia.