campus censorship

3 September 2020

Australia’s preeminent university, Australian National University is the latest institution to take part in the importation of cancel culture, with the university student association’s Ethnocultural Department promoting a change.org petition to “remove imperialist statues from the ANU campus”, most notably, the statue and bust of Winston Churchill located on campus.   The statue in question is a replica of the Churchill statue

7 August 2020

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the announcement by Education Minister Dan Tehan that former Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Sally Walker will review the implementation of the of the free speech code devised by former High Court Judge Robert French AC. “The cases of Peter Ridd, Drew Pavlou and UNSW’s latest shameful actions have highlighted without

20 June 2020

Yesterday Education Minister Dan Tehan announced that university students will now be paying up to $14,500 per year to study the humanities, an increase of over 110 per cent. On all likelihood, the fee hike will mean a larger bill for the Australian taxpayer as many humanities students leave university without the skills needed to get a job and start

14 March 2020

“Free speech crisis? What crisis?” Uttered in freaky unison, this frequen­t denial from university vice-chancellors has allowed them to resume normal programming. That consists of VCs putting their heads in the sand rather than confronting those trying to nobble intellectual diversity on campus. It includes VCs sending long emails about how proud they are of their diversity programs, with no

6 March 2020

Australian universities should not get a cent of any federal government bailout program or stimulus package in the wake of the coronavirus. Over the past decade universities have privatised the profits from the fees paid by overseas students. University vice-chancellors in this country enjoy building Taj Mahals to themselves and earning an average annual salary of close to $1 million.

3 October 2019

If you were not already convinced that Australia’s humanities departments have truly lost their way, the latest research project from the faculty of arts and social sciences at the University of Sydney should get you over the line. Resurgent Racism is the seventh “flagship” theme of FutureFix, a program devised by academics at the university to show taxpaying Australians their

31 August 2019

In 2016, the Collins English Dictionary ranked “snowflake generation” as one of those annoying new phrases for the year. It is time to bury it. It’s a beat-up and, worse, it is an unfair slur on the current generation of students. That is the good news from a forthcoming research report by the Institute of Public Affairs into the state

31 August 2019

 New IPA research, conducted as part of the IPA’s Generation Liberty Program, confirms there is a free speech crisis at Australia’s universities. The IPA commissioned a survey of 500 domestic Australian university students as part of a forthcoming report, The Free Speech Crisis at Australia’s Universities. The survey, conducted by independent market research company Dynata, includes students of all

31 August 2019

New research released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs confirms there is a free speech crisis at Australia’s universities. A survey of 500 domestic Australian university students, commissioned by the IPA from independent market research company, Dynata reveals: 41% of students feel they are sometimes unable to express their opinion at university 31% of students

9 August 2019

Recent scenes of chaos at the University of Queensland as pro- and anti-Hong Kong freedom demonstrators squared off on campus, and reports that the Chinese-based families of anti-communist protesters have received visits from Beijing’s security apparatus, are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to infiltration of our universities by the Chinese Communist Party. Even more disturbing is