Australia moves to make skin color and sex more important in hiring space engineers than skill or knowledge
A new industry group, established with full support of the Australian government, has been formed to encourage the hiring of minorities and women in that nation’s space industry, merely because they are minorities and women.
The Australian Space Diversity Alliance (ASDA) said it aims to support senior leaders and minimise the barriers that marginalised groups face. It comes after a series of reports have shown the sector is lagging behind others in regard to gender disparity, and alongside a talent shortage critics say can only be overcome with a more diverse intake.
ASDA was founded by eight industry figures, including Defence Council of Victoria’s Anntonette Dailey, ANU’s Dr Cassandra Steer, and Raytheon’s Linda Spurr. Defence Connect is one of the group’s industry partners, alongside five state governments, the iLAuNCH Trailblazer initiative, and communications agency The Write Space.
It makes the typical and very bogus claims of these Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that because woman comprise only 20% of the people in the space industry and minorities only 5%, bigotry must be involved. And the only solution is more bigotry, by favoring applicants from those groups even it they are less qualified than others.
The possibility that women and minorities might simply not be interested in doing this work is a reality that these race hustlers simply can’t tolerate. No, if women and minorities aren’t represented at a level we believe appropriate, we will make it so, regardless of skills, talent, knowledge or experience.
Expect the entire Australian space industry to suffer because of this effort.
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A new industry group, established with full support of the Australian government, has been formed to encourage the hiring of minorities and women in that nation’s space industry, merely because they are minorities and women.
The Australian Space Diversity Alliance (ASDA) said it aims to support senior leaders and minimise the barriers that marginalised groups face. It comes after a series of reports have shown the sector is lagging behind others in regard to gender disparity, and alongside a talent shortage critics say can only be overcome with a more diverse intake.
ASDA was founded by eight industry figures, including Defence Council of Victoria’s Anntonette Dailey, ANU’s Dr Cassandra Steer, and Raytheon’s Linda Spurr. Defence Connect is one of the group’s industry partners, alongside five state governments, the iLAuNCH Trailblazer initiative, and communications agency The Write Space.
It makes the typical and very bogus claims of these Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that because woman comprise only 20% of the people in the space industry and minorities only 5%, bigotry must be involved. And the only solution is more bigotry, by favoring applicants from those groups even it they are less qualified than others.
The possibility that women and minorities might simply not be interested in doing this work is a reality that these race hustlers simply can’t tolerate. No, if women and minorities aren’t represented at a level we believe appropriate, we will make it so, regardless of skills, talent, knowledge or experience.
Expect the entire Australian space industry to suffer because of this effort.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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“This entire leap in transportation technology and the interruption of natural markets based in demand by the customers’ needs and wants based in the “Green New Deal” political Ideology / Religion is a growing potential disaster.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/interested-in-buying-an-ev
I always understood that the rocket industry was populated by a bunch of high IQ nerds and science geeks that excelled in mathematics, physics and the sciences. That was the unique qualifications for those who can get a gigantic rocket off the ground and get it to go where you want it to go without it blowing up.
And I suppose that there are support jobs that might be available to others who were looking for work. But in order to get a rocket to the moon and back successfully you have got to have the passion and the vision. And that is not something that government can manufacture as a function of a political agenda based on skin color or anything else other than the passion and the unique intellectual capabilities that are necessary.
And so, a rocket industry just like an emerging EV auto industry driven by politics and agenda can only spell a bad time for someone.
At some point this is hopefully all part of a cycle and in time it will find some balance in reality. But then again, we are talking about an ideology based in just pure stupid, desperate insanity.
Stand by.
Personally I think mariachi bands are woefully lacking in the number of pasty engineers who can’t carry a tune.
I demand redress….,Truth and Reconciliation
What a complete crock of crap! There are NO BARRIERS to women or blacks who wish to pursue a career in engineering! None! But, you‘ve got to be able to do the work required to get a STEM degree, and that takes a desire for the subject. You cannot legislate desire! All this does is put people in positions they are not qualified to hold, which is not good for our progress as a society.
The Australian “space industry” is a government funded effort to provide some high tech jobs. An artificial creation brought to us by the criminal gang in Canberra.
Australia had a chance more than 50 years ago when we launched our own satellite but the country turned its back on the whole thing , just like our essentially non existent aircraft industry (consists of two manufacturers of Light Sport Aircraft). This is just an effort to follow the “current thing”.
” woman comprise only 20% of the people in the space industry and minorities only 5%, bigotry must be involved.”
Well, doesn’t that make the last half-century of cultural awareness moot? For ASDA’s, and every grievance organization’s, claims to be valid, the last 50 years of sensitivity training, and the staggering amount of resources invested in it, would have to have been completely ineffective. Now, there were a number of attitudes that needed to change, if the American promise were to be realized, but that has happened, and is continuing to happen! The limits of cultural acceptance have widened considerably; some might argue, past the point of reason, but changes have occurred. Does the Grievance Industry truly believe that their decades of effort have been for naught? Because their current actions would seem to suggest so.
It’s all a way to maintain power while trying to masquerade their irrelevance from the people paying for it. But the people paying for it have undergone a cultural sea change. They are perhaps beginning to realize the implied insult of the Grievance Industry, and question the social relevance of people telling them they haven’t made the effort.
Blair Ivey…. You are correct. This problem was largely solved. But the Left has “unsolved” it. Because if you solve a problem you lose the opportunity to wield power and control over people. That’s why their solutions never work. They aren’t meant too. They only need to sound good. They are lunatics.
destroying the space program
(and the nation (and civilization itself))
is a feature, not a bug.
And along similar lines from the EPA:
https://newrepublic.com/article/180044/epa-small-cars-sedan-suvs
This, at least in part, explains why there are now so many large, high dollar trucks and SUVs on the road as opposed to smaller, more affordable cars — which Ford and GM no longer even bother to manufacture. Given the incentives / disincentives, you have to suppose that vehicle buyers are making rational choices, but was this the result that everyone, including consumers, wanted?
“We’re from the EPA; we’re here to help you.”
PS — Blair Ivey, LTC SDS, and vermindust have it exactly right. The complete disruption of our current set of social arrangements is the Holy Grail of the Biden Administrations and the radical left.
@Mike Borgelt- are you referring to Black Arrow? As that was a British Rocket, which launched from Australia.
Andy–
here we go…
Black Arrow; A Very British Rocket
October 2023
https://youtu.be/K0FLy2nI13E
(1:01:44)
The exhaust almost invisible