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How do you stage Shakespeare in the Age of Woke? Well, If you're Bell Shakespeare doing The Comedy of Errors, you emphasise gender and colour-blind casting and forfeit the play's easy laughs in favour of soft-focused confusion. We won’t find Shakespeare’s relevance by softening his edges, as did the Bell production, by implementing a sex-change and making Luciana a camp male
Langton’s latest response to the Labor government’s Voice referendum debacle underlines the pro-capitalist character of the narrow privileged layer she represents.
What is our nation? After the Voice referendum's crudely manipulated emotionalism and cynical use of bad history, racial hatred and lies in an attempt to break us apart, that is a question the young will need to answer before the haters destroy our good country. I was an adult influenced by one bad short book. My individual recovery was painful but simple; their path is much more difficult
The problem on a Voice for news outlets is, well, news. The usual cliches apply – 'dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is'.
The comments flowed from the very nature of the Voice referendum itself, which is mired in the reactionary politics of racialism on all sides.