Australian universities cower as disaster looms

By the time you read this, I fear it will be too late to stop the federal government blowing up universities. Not the buildings. Those sandstone wonders, those sturdy red brick boxes, those glorious fantasies of Frank Gehry, they will still stand, memorials to critical thinking.

This tragedy is not a product of any real ideological war. It is not developed enough for that. It is anti-university partisanship, a judgment made by those in the Coalition who think that university employees would never vote for the Coalition so why bother to protect them. What better time to punish them than straight after the damage wrought by COVID-19? By all means, put the boot in when the victim is down, when it can't even defend itself.

Not all of those jobs are full-time jobs – we know at least 5000 permanent positions have definitely disappeared already and that number is likely to double by Christmas, according to the National Tertiary Education Union's president Alison Barnes. Included in my number are also 20,000 casuals or sessional staff.

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JennaPrice Of course it has, you and all the MSM have allowed the thousand inches towards fascism to be taken without playing your role as the 4th estate. From the legal silencing of public servants, to your role as press agents for the LNP, you have done nothing but undermine Democracy

JennaPrice Sorry JennaPrice, the universities made themselves into big businesses and now the public cares for them about as much as it cares for any other big business caught in the shjtstorm, which is to say, not at all. auspol

kcarruthers JennaPrice Good article. Terrible outcome for Australia. Destroying education & science leads to an ignorant & poor society.

JennaPrice I recommend a read, excelkent article. Such destruction of the halls of science, thinking & research. Shame on the LNP the party of dumb & dumber

JennaPrice academics, obsessed by ‘critical theory’ in race & gender, and relying on dysfunctional models for climate, are retreating to ‘safe spaces’ when not erasing history or cancelling free speech

JennaPrice “Universities do a terrible job of communicating what they do.“ Isn’t Ms Price; (a) a university academic, (b) who has spent the last 20 years teaching Communications? I mean, how ironic?

JennaPrice And here is why neither the government nor I give a rats arse.

JennaPrice An excellent piece: articles of this honestly and forthrightness are increasing rare in the MSM, but I’m still very glad when I see them

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JennaPrice Australia needs a loose alliance to take them on. Any former pollies on board?

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JennaPrice when education becomes more like a business the sector suffers

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