The Daily Telegraph exposed the latest example of political correctness gone mad by revealing in a March 30 that the University of New South Wales is teaching students that Australia was 鈥渋nvaded鈥 by Britain and was not actually 鈥渄iscovered鈥 by Captain James Cook.
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The Socialist Alliance released this statement on March 30.
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Ken Canning, lead Senate candidate for Socialist Alliance in the federal election described the Daily Telegraph's condemnation of the University of NSW's Diversity Toolkit 鈥 guidelines for appropriate language to describe Indigenous history 鈥 as 鈥渢he usual type of Neanderthal reporting鈥.
鈥淣ews.com slams the term 'invasion' when referring to James Cook's arrival in 1770.
鈥淒oes the Daily Telegraph seriously think Aboriginal people laid out the red carpet for him?
One of my guilty, I won't say pleasures so let's go with habits, is skimming through the Daily Telegraph while waiting for my coffee at the local cafe. It kills time and I can check out the content without giving any money to Murdoch鈥檚 media empire.