Sydney Morning Herald and The Age re-advertise for critics after two resign over diversity concerns
Nine has re-opened applications for two freelance book critic roles after Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil tendered their resignations to allow space for non-white writers.
Last month, Kavanagh and Callil were two of five white writers selected as critics for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age as part of a program funded by the Copyright Agency and Judith Nielsen Institute. But, in a joint statement, the pair said they sent a resignation letter to their editors “in opposition to the lack of diversity in the selection”.
Kavanagh and Callil
Political correctness at its finest!
What if the best candidates for the job are all white?
Are SMH/The Age expected to illegally discriminate against against any white skinned candidates who apply for and are good candidates for this job?
Quote from fairwork.gov.au:
“Unlawful workplace discrimination occurs when an employer takes adverse action against a person who is an employee or prospective employee because of the following attributes of the person:
race
colour
sex
sexual orientation
age
physical or mental disability
marital status
family or carer’s responsibilities
pregnancy
religion
political opinion
national extraction or social origin”
Does this not apply if the candidate is a white Australian? This is a tough spot for the Fairfax crew. If their best candidate is white and they don’t hire them – they break the law. If they do hire them they will be lynched by the woke social justice warriors.
We need to be fighting for equal opportunity – not equal outcome.
It’s called unconscious bias…Educate yourself.
The ignorance of shouting ‘unconscious bias’ every time there is a rational, logical and legal point of view, is quote frankly obscene and overcooked. It’s time to grow up people, stop feeding this absolute mindless frenzy!
Two questions for the Mumbrella cohort….
1) If these five people were genuinely the top five candidates, and got the jobs on merit, should they have been given these roles or should the SMH/Age have self imposed a quota system to given these roles to a non-white person who wasn’t quite up to standard?
2) do you genuinely think that the SMH/Age purposely chose an all white group and deliberately downgraded and neglected to choose other candidates because they were not white?
Well, this pair must be confident of getting other jobs – rather them than I.