David Flint brings into question the current trend of business leaders, “rewarded beyond the wildest dreams of rank-and-file Australians” to believe that their high and mighty positions in the world of commerce entitle them to be our “moral guardians”. (think Qantas CEO and his part in the downfall and demonisation of Israel Folau, along with the bullying of staff over SSM, for just one example).

Flint believes that there would be no objections to an executive getting on his hobby horse in a private capacity, but it is beyond the pale if company resources, shareholders’ money and so on are “commandeered” to impose draconian sanctions on employees and perfect strangers alike.

Kmart was recently sprung for banning the use of words such as ‘Jesus’ or ‘church’ in their photo processing kiosks, but ‘Islam’ and ‘Koran’ are OK.

There is an increasing list of arrogant stupidity coming from big business where not so long ago, no business person would talk about politics or morality if they wanted to retain customers. Examples of big business nannying and authoritarianism these days are legion.

It seems that the modern MBA s are as ill-educated as the BA s. And the really odd thing is that such left-wing crap is coming from private enterprise, which used to be the bastion of the Right. David Flint emphasises this about face in the fervour for gender-bending: one of the latest trends among the Western elite is that a biological male can claim to be a woman and take part in women’s sports. This used to be the prerogative of East European communists shysters in Olympic Games teams.

We can punish politicians who think that they know better than we do by not voting for them; in theory, we could refuse to patronise big business for having the same attitude. The problem is, though, that most politicians are now much the same, and big business is gradually squeezing out the small businesses which give good service and still show their customers and bit of respect leaving politics to politicians.

ttbn, get a bit of lefty politics from one business person and silly old Flint is jumping up and down. Rupert Murdoch an American citizen has been interfering in Aussie politics for 50 years with nothing said from the hard right.

BTW, the political donation system ensures the rich (business) will always have an unfair say, their money buys it for them.

Was it Big Business who bankrolled Clive Palmer at the last election in order to redirect votes, that were going to be loss by the Coalition, away from Labor and back to the Coalition parties?

That, with a promise to give $1000 extra in their tax refund to voters to switch their vote from Labor to LNP, is what got ScuMo back into government. Now ScuMo's surplus is probably stuffed and he will have to bring in millions more cashed up Chinese to keep the economy afloat sufficient enough to have a surplus at the next election to buy votes from Labor voters again.

I've only one thing to say to ScuMo: Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor .....................................................................

Like the two comments above, this has nothing to do with the topic, but between 2006 and 2018, we have had inflicted on us by Australian politicians, who could have stopped them, 650,700 residents who were born in China.

Dear ttbn,

We assume you meant to write 'Unlike the two comments above, this .............'

Dear ttbn,

I think there are a lot more than the 650,700 figure you just cited. Take a trip to Sydney, a city of over 5 million, and have a look around. I reckon Chinese make up 1 in 2 people in Sydney. And all because successive coalition governments since the 1990s have been using cashed up Chinese to keep the Australian economy afloat: a quick fix that has given Australia a Chinese future.