The Renaissance man from Gunnedah

Dear ,

In just under 4 weeks John Anderson will be the guest speaker at our annual Emancipation Day breakfast.

The date is July 30, and venue Tattersall’s. You can book by clicking here.

John has just been in London where he addressed the ARC conference which he co-founded with Jordan Peterson and Baroness Philippa Stroud. (I can’t find free footage of this, but you might like to check out his YouTube Channel, which has 802,000 subscribers, and is 4 times larger than Karl Stefanovic’s).

The ARC conference and the Aspire Conference, held earlier this year in Sydney, mark further steps in John’s second career - after being an outstanding cabinet minister and deputy PM - as a defender of Western culture.

So who better to talk about one of Britain’s indisputably greatest contributions to human rights - abolishing slavery in the British Empire and attempting to stamp out the international slave trade, a contribution we can all celebrate as inheritors of that tradition?

Tickets are just $65 a head for AIP members and for that you get a hot breakfast, great company and an inspiring speaker. Come on your own, come with a friend, or bring another 9 and make up a table. Click here.

People ask me why we in Australia should celebrate this occasion. Afterall, we’ve never had legal slavery in Australia. Well, that’s one reason just there. Australia was part of a reforming trend in British culture and the king’s instructions to Arthur Phillip stipulated there should be no slavery here – a first for a British colony.

But more than that, before the abolition, slavery was just a fact of life in most of the world, and for most periods of civilisation, no matter how horrendous it may seem to us today. This was a significant cultural step forward.

This is one event the left might not want to celebrate, but it’s impossible for them to denigrate it, as they do with other celebrations which unite us under one Western cultural banner.

It’s also the birth of universal human rights – the idea that what you were owed as a human is not, and should not be, culturally determined.

I look forward to seeing you on July 30, and don’t forget to bring your friends. Click here to book.

Kind regards,

GRAHAM YOUNG
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR PROGRESS