Let King Trump sweep our universities clean

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It is one of those marvels of the globe economy. Every so often a great and powerful friend does to us what we should have done ourselves long ago. AFR.

Australia’s biggest universities have accused the Trump administration of foreign influence and asked the Albanese government to intervene after local researchers who receive US funding were asked to declare if they have links to China and whether they comply with the president’s two gender policy.

Australian researchers working on projects jointly funded by US federal agencies have been sent a 36-point questionnaire asking them whether their university has any connections to socialist or communist parties, whether it has ever received funding from China, and whether the project takes appropriate measures to protect women and align with an executive order to recognise only two sexes, male and female.

Great stuff. Let the Trump broom sweep our tertiary whores clean. For far too long they have consorted with the enemy in China, while promulgating bogus French post-structural nonsense that has wrecked several generation’s basic understanding of class politics while substituting it with genital trivia.

More, and ironically, our universities are today the key funnel for the disastrous immigration-led economic model that has smashed Aussie living standards for over a decade, including stalling income growth, perpetuating housing crises, crush loading infrastructure and ruining the environment.

It is a sad ironies of our universities that they have used post-structural clap trap to manufacture consent in the student polity for this immense inter-generational war upon itself when, in truth, it is little more than an excuse for vice-chancellors to parade around on million dollar salaries. More often than not, failed politicians.

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How amusing that the revolution must now come the populist right!

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.