🇦🇺 The Colonial Cultural Crisis: Australia’s Soul is Still in the Governor’s Filing Cabinet

Australia still hasn’t decolonised — it’s just changed costume.

Behind the boomer humour, the self-deprecating ‘mateship’, and the recycled sitcoms lies a culture spiralling into irrelevance. And now the mask is slipping:

🎭 1. The Culture Gaffe Carousel Spins On

Khaled Sabsabi Venice Biennale debacle: First selected, then dumped, then reinstated — all under shadowy political pressure. Artistic integrity? Still hostage to the colonial gaze.

➤ “Too controversial,” whispered the cultural gatekeepers.

Fred Leone meltdown: Music Australia Council member lashes out with expletives and veiled threats — yet keeps his seat.

➤ Accountability in the arts? Only if you threaten tradition, not politicians.

NSW health antisemitism scandal: Nurses on video wishing violence on Jewish people.

➤ What is this, 1933? And we’re still debating ‘free speech’?

🗞️ 2. Media Echo Chamber: Woke vs Blokey

Dutton’s “anti-woke” strategy collapsed in flames. Turns out Australians want solutions, not culture war karaoke.

➤ The only people still fighting the culture war are politicians and talkback radio.

Legacy media still can’t explain Indigenous identity without reducing it to a left-right spectrum.

➤ It’s not “woke” to want dignity — it’s human.

🧨 3. Creativity Under Siege

Labor flirts with a text-and-data-mining loophole that would let Big Tech scrape Aussie art and literature for free.

➤ Why fund artists when Google can just steal their soul at scale?

A national arts policy that can’t even survive a phone call from a minister.

➤ Colonial chain of command: still intact. Just digitised.

📉 4. Indigenous Futures? Still Optional

Indigenous groups are fighting stadiums instead of building futures.

➤ Welcome to Brisbane 2032: reconciliation sold out for corporate naming rights.

Racism against Indigenous Australians has risen 40% in a decade.

➤ Progress? Or just a change in marketing slogans?

🚨 The Verdict:

Australia isn’t in a culture war. It’s in cultural denial.

We never left the Governor’s Office — we just put up a WiFi router and called it the ABC.

This is not a callout — it’s a lifeline.

If we don’t reboot culture with actual sovereignty, then:

Our art will be mined by AI.

Our humour will die in provincial echo chambers.

And our future will still report to a Queen who’s already dead.

#DecoloniseCulture #AusPol #AbolishBoomerHumour #RacismIsNotTradition #SovereignArt #NoMoreCringe

⚡Tag someone who still thinks the larrikin myth is funny.

🧨 Or better, tag someone ready to rebuild a culture worth exporting.