Sky News host Peta Credlin says right across the world too many people are either tearing down modern civilisation – and the “values that made humanity better” – or sitting idly by while others do it.

“People frightened to speak their mind, cancelled if they do, piled-on with abuse, from self-righteous twitter mob, the elites, and the haters,” according to Ms Credlin.

“Is this really what generations before us, sacrificed so much to build? A nation at war with itself? Sadly, it’s not an Australian affliction alone.

“It’s a madness right across the world.

“It’s as though, once proud to go forth with values that made humanity better – equality, freedom of conscience, of speech, the rule of law and democracy – we now so hate the civilisations these values have spawned, that we’re either tearing them down, or sitting passively by, letting others do it.”