Statement from NTEU Victorian Secretary Colin Long on the Suspension of Roz Ward
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Wednesday was a bleak day for Australian universities, for freedom of speech and for democracy. On that day, the management of La Trobe University suspended from work Roz Ward, NTEU member and Safe Schools advocate, on serious misconduct charges. Her alleged offence? That she wrote, in a private Facebook post, that it would be good if the “racist” Australian flag flying over Parliament were one day to be replaced by the red flag. It is time for decent people, who believe in reasoned argument, freedom of speech, intellectual freedom and democracy to stand up against the deeply anti-democratic bullying of the Australian right, especially its media mouthpieces.
Conference: Help Challenge the Privatised Uni!
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Join the discussion to find ways to reclaim and reinvent public good universities.
University Deregulation, by Nick Riemer
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Public higher education needs defenders made of sterner stuff
Servitude for Students by John Holmwood
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The moral crisis at the heart of the neoliberal university
Mining Universities by Kristen Lyons and Carol Richards
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Research in today’s mining-funded tertiary sector
Latest comment: Thank you for this very important article. I am tired of life and death issues like mining vs farming...
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
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It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
The School as Market
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‘Equity’ and ‘choice’ delude Labor and create inequities for generations of students
My University
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Rod Beecham on The reductio ad absurdum of Commonwealth education policy