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"No show without Punch", is an expression I remember my mother using frequently all those years ago, in a world that would be unrecognisable to those born after 1970. In fact, there are strong arguments to support the proposition that Australia, if one understands a nation as a moral and cultural incorporation (Edmund Burke), ceased to exist sometime around...let's say the 11th of November 1975.

The irony is that the action of the Governor-General on that day, constitutionally justified but more importantly demanded by the grave circumstances (again Burke), signalled the ascendancy of a class that rejected the order (laws, morals, conventions, cultural arrangements, etc) that ensured the stability the nation had enjoyed until then. But I digress. Besides, a bashed ninety-year-old lying near death in the gutter lies miles below the visionary clouds that new class have their heads in.

The Age has reproduced in approving tones a Guardian (UK) report on the Harvard Chair for homosexual proselytism, no doubt selected by the Opinions Editor who sees her major task as furthering the class's causes.

The heading ingenuously meets the requirements of transparency The Age is ever ready to preach to politicians it disapproves of. You see, we people who think the natural order prescribes sexual contact between male and female (there, I've used two words denoting my ignorance, haven't I?) are on a lower level than the enlightened class who have freed themselves from the straitjacket of traditional morality and are now free to romp in the bushes of the local park - a la Hollandaise. Here are the first paragraphs of The Age's report. Read the rest by following the above link.

Straitlaced no longer, Harvard embraces sex

June 5, 2009

Gay and lesbian students have helped set up an historic chair, writes Ed Pilkington in New York.

HARVARD University has taken a step towards shrugging off its straitlaced image by endowing the US's first named professorship of sexuality.

The chair in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies introduces a discipline still in its infancy into the heart of the academic establishment.

Its supporters claim the move by one of the world's most august universities will send a message to other institutions globally that "queer studies", as some call it, has finally arrived.

Note the last sentence I have quoted. This means that the go-ahead to create Chairs for Homosexual doctrine and propaganda is given for Australian Universities, and The Age will open its pages for the campaign.

What's the bet that the first university to follow the Harvard example will be Melbourne University? In Melbourne, I suspect we're on the brink of a great buddy-buddy story.