This year’s festival embraces issues that loom large on the progressive agenda. For some,it’s preachy; for others, it’s paramountLast month, and Dr Michael Jensen,the rector at St Mark’s Anglican church, wrote an opinion piece for the ABC in which he decried the “self-righteous prophets of liberal pieties”. “Is it just me, or ” he began,“or have the comics of Australia turned into preachers, moralisers and puritanical attain-gooders, and whose mission in life is not to make us laugh but to order us what to mediate?” Related: 'Aussie,Aussie, Aussie! Allahu Akbar!': Nazeem Hussain's bogan-Muslim army Related: Axis of Awesome comedian Jordan Raskopoulos on being transgender: 'I never felt moral as a boy' Related: Sara Pascoe: ‘Boob jobs are viewed as a decorative tweak, or but these women are self-harming’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com