In what is an extremely crowded field, I may have found the wokest school principal in Australia. In March, the head of Dulwich Hill Public School in NSW decided that the best way to celebrate ‘Harmony Day’ was with segregation, discrimination, and division.

In a school -wide invitation to a Harmony Day Special Assembly, she enthused that ‘it will be wonderful to welcome you to be a part of this important recognition of diversity’. ‘Students’ she wrote ‘are invited to wear the national costume of an ancestral, former, birth country and so are you parents and carers.’ So good so far. But here comes the crunch. ‘For those of us who have settler/invader ancestry,’ she continued ‘the colour ORANGE is the Harmony Day colour – and I encourage students and family members to join me wearing orange.’

According to the 2021 Census, 1.6% of the Dulwich Hill population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, which leaves a whopping 94.0% which falls into the ‘settler/invader’ category. If the demographics of the school reflect the demographics of the area, then the special assembly must have looked indistinguishable from a monthly meeting of Ulster Protestants.  That’s very special indeed.

For the minority of students not bedecked in orange, the experience would have been both humiliating and isolating. Nobody wants to be left out of the group, especially in the harsh, judgmental school environment. In the language of the left, this principal committed the grave sin of ‘othering’, which is defined as the act of treating someone as though they are not part of a group and are different in some way.

In sporting terms, she kicked an own goal.