Our youth are impressionable, but not stupid

The Age of Woke is over and young people know they were lied to...

Let’s be honest. Australia’s young people have been marinated in Woke ideology from the cradle to the doctorate. From childcare centres, where toddlers learn about ‘gender fluidity’ before they can tie their shoelaces, through school curricula that treats Western Civilisation as an original sin, to university faculties that reward grievance studies over rigorous inquiry.

The left has had a captive audience for decades. They’ve been told that feelings trump facts, that capitalism is the root of all evil, and that the only moral posture worth striking is performative outrage. Impressionable? Absolutely. Stupid? Not even close.

The proof is in the polling.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Our youth are impressionable, but not stupid.

Young Australians have realised they were lied to their whole lives by the left-wing machine at the heart of the education system.

Woke virtue-signalling can't pay an energy bill.

A Welcome to Country isn't going to fix social unrest in their cities.

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— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) April 6, 2026