> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # When They Want Your Opinion, They’ll Give It to You - URL: https://goodoil.news/when-they-want-your-opinion-theyll-give-it-to-you/ - Published: 2026-09-30T03:00:25.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-30T03:00:24.000Z - Description: Young ABC types are always ready to give the rest of us the full benefits of their ignorance and inexperience. - Author: Lushington Brady - Tags: AUS Politics **Oscar Wilde** famously said that “In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.” Oscar Wilde was fortunate enough to never see the ABC, much less have to fork out over a billion in taxes for it. We unlucky Australians have to endure both. The ABC is a typical legacy media outlet: overwhelmingly young, female and university-educated in invariably far-left disciplines such as journalism and communications. A [recent paper from the Social Science Research Network found](https://www.americanexperiment.org/how-college-majors-shape-political-ideology/?ref=goodoil.news) that the majors students study “are a significant predictor of the political leanings students adopt… these effects extend to behavior: the social sciences and humanities increase activism”. The ABC is proof of the pudding: its journalists are four times more likely to vote Green than the rest of Australia, and are known to openly identify as “activists”. And when they want to talk to ‘the person in the street’, what they invariably mean is their own mirror: young, female and very, very left-wing. In the latest outbreak of the ABC being all-too ready to brow-beat us with the confident ignorance of the young, left-wing and female, they turn to two under-25 bourgeois girls, to tell us why everyone else is wrong. Take, for instance, young Bronte, who kindly permits the national broadcaster to tour her lounge room and pose as the singular family member who refuses to genuflect before the altar of inner-urban progressive pieties. Bronte confesses that while her household leans rather sensibly toward conservatism and the ballot of **Pauline Hanson**, she prefers the righteous path of Labor or the Greens. > [“I definitely get](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/one-nation-family-dynamics-aus-politics/107204260?ref=goodoil.news) more agitated about it than she does. I do try and dig under her fingernails a little bit.” One must admire the charity of the youth. Here we have a 20-something undergraduate, presumably yet to acquaint herself with the brutal arithmetic of a tax return or a BAS statement, spending her afternoons attempting to irritate her mother: a woman who has actually lived, worked and contributed to the commonwealth. Mother Kelly, displaying the infinite patience peculiar to parents saddled with university-indoctrinated offspring, attempts to maintain domestic peace by agreeing to disagree. Yet the ABC cannot simply leave well enough alone. They must unearth yet another youthful oracle to lecture us on the profound burden of having relatives who decline to vote in lockstep with the *Guardian* editorial board. Enter Sarah, a “second-generation migrant” (an ABC description that seems rather at odds with its conceit that Abdul-just-off-the-boat is ‘100 per cent Aussie’) who has apparently appointed herself chief psychological assessor for her own father. Sarah struggles mightily with the fact that her old man dares to look upon One Nation with favour, a party enjoying a formidable resurgence as voters tire of the establishment’s demographic engineering and economic vandalism. Instead of extending her father the courtesy of his own agency – he is, after all, notably absent from the broadcast to speak for himself – Sarah psychoanalyses him with all the patronising condescension typical of a modern arts faculty. > It’s a survival tactic to protect himself against people who view all immigrants as bad. With my dad, he’s compelled by One Nation to adopt and incorporate their attitudes in order to prove he’s different from the ‘bad immigrant’ out-group, because he doesn’t want to be scapegoated. The sheer, breathtaking arrogance of it! Rather than entertaining the radical notion that her father might possess rational, adult concerns regarding infrastructure, housing shortages and the sheer velocity of mass migration, concerns shared by a rapidly growing slice of the Australian populace, Sarah insists he is merely suffering from an internalised colonial panic. It is always a curious spectacle to watch the progressive commentariat hyperventilate over One Nation while ignoring the hard data. Polls consistently reveal that migrants support populist and conservative platforms at levels vastly higher than the pampered, uni-bred Gen Z activists who claim to speak for them. Indeed, migrants are often twice as likely to back One Nation than these pristine campus radicals. They came here for a functioning country, not a sociological laboratory run by municipal HR departments. Furthermore, psychological literature routinely confirms what any sensible pub patron could tell you: young, left-wing women are statistically the least tolerant demographic on the face of the earth when it comes to dissenting opinions. They can barely abide a difference in television preferences, let alone a divergence in macroeconomic philosophy. As **Nick Tebbey** from Relationships Australia notes, political friction within families is soaring, driven entirely by an ecosystem of grievance-based media that treats normal conservative values as some sort of moral contagion. Bronte herself lets slip the ironclad totalitarianism of her romantic criteria, proudly declaring she would never deign to date anyone who leaned right of Mao. Perhaps, before the taxpayer-funded cadres at Ultimo draft their next solemn dispatch on the tragedy of parents refusing to bend the knee to youth, their pet interlocutors might pause for a moment of rare, unaccustomed reflection. When the parents who paid for their degrees, built the economy and keep the lights on all disagree with them – alongside a massive and growing sweep of mainstream Australia – it just might be they who are wrong. --- 💡 ****If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.**