Rowan Dean is an Australian advertising executive and conservative commentator.
16 Facts About Rowan Dean
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Rowan Dean is currently the editor of Spectator Australia in addition to being a frequent contributor.
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Rowan Dean was a regular panellist on ABC comedy series Gruen from 2008, and started writing pieces for News Corp Australia and The Australian Financial Review.
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In 2016, Rowan Dean became co-host of the Sky News Australia conservative commentary program Outsiders, along with Mark Latham and Ross Cameron.
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Rowan Dean remains the only original host of the format, with the other two initial co-hosts being fired by the channel for various controversies related to comments made during the program.
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Rowan Dean is a frequent critic of political correctness and cancel culture and frequently speaks out on controversial cultural issues.
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Rowan Dean produced a special for Sky News titled The Death of the Aussie Larrikin, in which he and a host of guests contended that political correctness was destroying Australia's larrikin tradition.
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Rowan Dean has ridiculed the modern push to rename brands and place names with offensive connotations.
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Rowan Dean was criticised in The Guardian in June 2016 after compiling a "Poor Me List" mocking prominent Australians who he perceived as displaying a victim mentality in spite of their success, many of whom were Indigenous Australians or from other ethnic minorities.
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Rowan Dean has been accused of misogyny based on his comments about women and feminism.
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In July 2017, Rowan Dean suggested on Sky News that the Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, should "leave the country" after Soutphommasane called for more cultural diversity in Australian media and politics.
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In November 2016, Rowan Dean attended a party at The Rugby Club in Sydney to celebrate the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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In 2018, Rowan Dean described Trump as "the greatest president since Ronald Reagan".
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Rowan Dean prematurely predicted the re-election of Donald Trump in 2020 on Sky News based on early, incomplete results.
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Rowan Dean rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and has claimed that human induced climate change is a "hoax".
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Rowan Dean was widely criticised for comments he made on Sky News in 2019 that climate change was a "fraudulent and dangerous cult" and that children boycotting school to protest climate inaction was a form of "child abuse".