Via The Australian:
The Morrison government will launch an inquiry into foreign interference in Australian universities and how Beijing has recruited academics to a secretive program that paid lucrative salaries and allowed research to be patented in China.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on Sunday outlined the terms of reference for a broad-ranging inquiry into foreign interference in the university sector in a letter to the chair of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, Andrew Hastie.
The inquiry will examine not only universities but all publicly funded research and grants and whether knowledge and technology were being transferred to foreign powers against Australian’s national interest.
The PJCIS inquiry was launched after The Australian’s revelations last week that the Chinese government was actively recruiting scientists to take part in a secretive program that required intellectual property to be patented in China.
It also revealed that some universities were unaware their academics had been named in multiple patents assigned to Chinese universities or institutions.
Great stuff. This on the back of:
Universities will face a sweeping review into whether they are meeting national standards for freedom of speech in the face of several censorship controversies engulfing higher education.
Former Deakin University vice-chancellor Sally Walker will be tasked with investigating whether universities are in alignment with the free speech code devised by former High Court chief justice Robert French.
The review will assess whether there are gaps in their responses to freedom-of-speech issues, and if more action is required to make sure university leaders protect academic freedoms.
The entire sector has sold out to CCP influences:
- Confucious Institutes have got to go;
- research collaborations with CCP operatives have got to go;
- corrupt giveaways to CCP operatives have to go;
- free speech must be returned;
- the number of foreign students must be cut;
- pedagogical standards must be restored;
- cheating must be stamped out;
- public funding must be available again if necessary.
Drew Pavlou is celebrating with a new bazooka at the ready:
At my press conference I will be exposing UQ’s corrupt conduct as demonstrated in documents unveiled by Freedom of Information request https://t.co/KSC2ho96aG
— Drew Pavlou 柏乐志 (@DrewPavlou) August 30, 2020
Rip the universities off the CCP tit.
