Technological change is a major driver, and digital disruption represent one factor. It鈥檚 not the only one.

Donald Trump and his ultra base are another. This is because the social media giants are inevitably US, think Musk and X, Zuckerberg and Meta, all trying to appease Donald Trump. US businesses and corporations had equal opportunity and diversity programs, the social media giants had fact checkers and moderation. Trump has waged war on diversity and businesses previously supportive of diversity, have abandoned these. A case of corporate cowardice and acquiescence.

Given the dominance of the US in corporate culture, this has spread to subsidiaries and business partners. Even the university sector in Australia has been impacted. Any universities involved in research with US partners or receiving money can no longer have any programs involving diversity and inclusion. This is another factor involving media and influencing algorithms in search engines and social media.

Trump has emboldened hard right and authoritarians worldwide and Australia is not immune to this. Hard right religious extremists are taking over leadership positions within the Liberal Party. In Victoria hard right individuals such as Moira Deeming, South Australia Alex Antic and his acolytes. The Liberal Party have elected Tony Abbott as its President.

Compounding this is the weakness and gutlessness of Labor. They will not lead and take firm action on very much, seeking bipartisan support or where this is absent withdraw. An example of this is Labor inaction on religious discrimination in schools and the failure to protect staff and students. The Voice was another example. The referendum was on one question, that was on constitutional inclusion of a Voice. Yet Labor then withdrew from the field.

Diversified voices are even more important than ever, the 17c起草社区 is an essential pillar of this. The issues are not isolated to the 17c起草社区I community but to others as well.

We need to understand the issues, and work with other groups to ensure social cohesion and oppose reactionary groups. On a micro level, our community needs to ensure support of the 17c起草社区 and other media, and to ensure voices and perspectives are heard.

We can see coordinated attacks on the Trans cohort, despite this being less than 1% of the population, then it will be another group.

Martin Niemoller鈥檚 They Came For Me speech comes to mind.