Australian universities long since stopped serving the public interest. They are now little more than visa factories for the disastrous immigration-led economic model and funnels of Chinese and other autocratic influence.
Governments have been captured by the universities by becoming retirement homes with large sinecures for failed politicians.
If we can’t cleanse the system ourselves then let King Trump do it. AFR.
Australia’s leading scientists are urging the Albanese government to sign up to a European collaborative research fund because it fears the Trump administration’s attempts to influence what is researched and by whom, and a possible collapse in funding.
The move follows representatives from Australia’s spy agencies telling university leaders they were concerned about the potential for foreign influence stemming from a 36-point questionnaire that pushes US President Donald Trump’s ideological agenda in areas as broad as foreign aid, narcotics, terrorism, government waste and DEI.
In 2024, the US government contributed $386 million in funding to collaborative projects with Australian researchers – equivalent to nearly half the entire budget of the Australian Research Council.
What? And DEI, foreign aid, narcotics, terrorism, and government waste aren’t intrinsically ideological issues?
I don’t agree with a lot of what Trump’s loons push but I agree even less with the globalist corruption running rampant through Australian universities.
From capturing government, to promoting Chinese autocracy, to turning local kids into foreign student cyphers, to the post-structuralist rot undermining the basic dialectic of post-Enlightenment thought.
The current system is so broken that even Trump’s loons will improve it.
