Ministers from the NSW government have criticized a ‘woke’ inclusiveness training course after being advised they shouldn’t call each other’mate.’
This week, the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet held a series of consultations on “diversity and inclusion.”
A variety of workplace modifications were specified in the program, including bans on drinking alcohol in the office, shouting at coworkers, and gossiping about coworkers.
The workshops are estimated to have cost $202,000 to taxpayers.
‘PC insanity,”straight out of 1984,’ and’mumbo jumbo,’ according to some ministers, have been used to describe the ‘Respect at Work’ consultations.
NSW government ministers have slammed a ‘woke’ inclusion training seminar after they were told they should not refer to each other as ‘mate’
Bans on drinking alcohol in the office, shouting at coworkers, and gossiping about coworkers were among the changes listed.
‘I use the word’mate’ all the time — that’s as Australian as it gets.’ ‘How can that be considered offensive?’ The Daily Telegraph was told by one of them.
‘We’re not permitted to have separate opinions,’ said another. We must engage in group brainstorming… ‘It’s like something out of 1984.’
To ensure ‘inclusivity,’ all employees must be asked out for after-work beverages, and job assignments must be evenly distributed between senior and junior colleagues.
David Elliott, the Veterans Minister, said he kept a bottle of whisky in his office to ‘place my legislative colleagues’.