Eric Kaufmann’s new book pillories ‘progressive’ (woke) extremism – including Albanese Labor

# Re-legislate Free Speech, to protect employees, prioritise speech rights over woke strictures

# Political Neutrality is advertised and enforced in public (including educational and media) agencies

# Equivalent Action, to make political beliefs a protected characteristic in public agencies, at least as much as race or gender

# People are the Policy, to open public bodies up to political appointments

# US-styled"Federalist Society" for the Bureaucracy, that is, create a lobby to encourage conservatives as public-service applicants

# US-styled "NRA" for the Culture War, that is, a lobby that would scrutinise and report on the "woke-ness" of political candidates.

Free speech? Albanese proposed instead a Misinformation Bill. Targeting bogeymen like social media, but fencing off governmental "jobs and growth" misinformation. Australian versions of those lobby groups? They'd be busy.

For Kaufmann, public school education is the "most important lever" influencing future voters' thoughts, therefore the "top priority" for conservatives.

But, with rare exceptions like de Santis, American conservatives are loath to get involved. Obsessing instead, over "guns, abortion". With Australia's Scott Morrison, it was "religious discrimination".

John Howard (1996) and Tony Abbott (2013) made a show of sacking departmental chiefs. Morrison hectored the public service, yet corrupted it further, via robodebt.

"Progressive" Liberal Matt Kean scoffed at Morrison, who wouldn't "commit" to net-zero emissions. Just the man, to chair Labor's Climate Authority. Already clashing with Dutton, over (unlikely) nuclear power.

The wrap – climate woke