Last Saturday I participated as a panellist at the Disrupted Festival of Ideas. Organised by the State Library of Western Australia, I was on the panel for a discussion concerning the meaning of “Cancel Culture”. 

The panel sought to address whether ‘cancel culture’ is just a term utilised to vilify militant leftists or a real thing and a threat to nuanced debate and the safe exchange of ideas. Besides myself, panellists included SLWA chief executive Margaret Allen, Murdoch University post-graduate research student Graeme Paton, and LGBTQI+ activist Kai Schweizer. 

The reality is that honest debate is not being allowed. It is deeply ironic that a discussion about cancel culture has been “cancelled” by a cancel culture panellist.  As reported by WAtoday and Nine Entertainment media outlets “a SLWA spokesman said the...