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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Newswire Photos: MAY 02 2024: A general view of the Sydney Uni where Protests in support of Gaza have spread to about 50 US universities and are now in four Australian universities, with students committed to permanently occupying university land until their demands for divestment are met. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Uni debacle was always going to get ugly

Our two oldest universities are both loudly left-wing campuses – they have activist staff and student groups where the party-line is settler-colonist theory – in which Israel as is has no right to exist.

Stephen Matchett

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An Emirati student arrives at the building of the University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. A senior official at a Dubai university says the man suspected of trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day studied there through the middle of this year but is no longer a student. University of Wollongong in Dubai Vice President Raymi van der Spek told The Associated Press on Monday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab took classes for seven months beginning in January. The school, located near the beach and Dubai's palm island, is a branch of an Australian public university.(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

The many pitfalls of exporting education

The Victorian government will kick $5m to local universities to set up overseas and avoid Canberra’s international student quotas. Now why hasn’t anybody tried that before? They have and it doesn’t do much.

Stephen Matchett

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