No other occasion in Australia best exemplifies the hyper-politicisation of the arts than the annual Australia Council for the Arts awards. This year, the recipients, though no doubt highly talented in their particular fields, ticked so many diversity and inclusion boxes that the Council might as well be done with it and call them the Annual Woke Awards.
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Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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