This abuse of power and exploitation of young university students is committed by the same group of academics who rail against abusive power structures in our society – and taxpayers are stumping up for the hypocrisy.
If Dutton wins the May election, he can and should defang these funds. They are now large public offer financial institutions – many of whose members are not union members.
Telling kids to get a degree about climate when PNG contributes next to nothing in global emissions and can do nothing about it is another Western frolic.
An Australian taxpayer-backed scholarship for students from PNG is pushing applications to focus on ‘gender, climate and disability-related studies’ instead of agriculture, education, and health.
The project to ‘indigenise’ law school curriculums will mean upending the curriculum from what the law is to what activists think it should be.
Why should we care about what’s going on in the nation’s law schools? For starters, taxpayers might be interested to learn their funding a hotbed of compulsory extremism.
Students and academics have criticised Monash University’s law PhD course, which forces students to critique their thesis based on Marxist, feminist and critical race and queer theory.
Making students mouth a form of political speech and assessing their fervour is nuts – but it’s happening.
Macquarie University law students who face the threat of failing a key exam over a lacklustre acknowledgment of country have been made to adopt different personas and perform a ‘privilege walk’.
Conclave makes no effort to engage with conservative thinking. Hollywood is today so immersed in liberal shibboleths that it is unable to characterise those views it disagrees with in a nuanced or sophisticated way.
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