The Street Sweeper Sacked for Objecting to Acknowledgment of Country ...

In the great progressive utopia known as modern Victoria there now exists a sacred ritual more inviolable than the national anthem and far more frequent: the Acknowledgement of Country.

A noble sentiment in essence, it has now metastasized into the bureaucratic equivalent of a Gregorian chant, solemnly intoned before every public meeting, morning briefing, and, if the activists get their way, possibly before flushing public toilets.

Enter Shaun Turner, a Darebin council-employed street sweeper.

Turner committed what is now considered a secular sin in the progressive gospel: he asked a question.

Specifically, he queried whether it was necessary to perform an Acknowledgement of Country before the weekly street sweeping session.

That's right, a man who sweeps streets for a living questioned the liturgical value of repeatedly acknowledging traditional owners before discussing broom allocation and high-vis compliance.

For this blasphemy, he was promptly swept aside. (See what I did there?)

Now, before the cancel-happy clerics in the Church of Wokeness grab their pitchforks, it's worth noting Mr Turner never objected to Acknowledgement of Country itself.

He merely suggested, in his treasonous simplicity, that perhaps such acknowledgements should be reserved for more meaningful occasions.

Like, say, council meetings where policy is set - not toolbox talks where the most pressing item is a discussion about whether it would be better to clean the north bound or south bound lane first.

Naturally, the council reacted the way all bureaucracies trained in postmodern groupthink do: they held a meeting …