what a pathetic comeback ttbn.

shows your intellect. good work buddy.

A much simpler assessment could be argued here. The difficulty of altering the status quo once established is a monumental task.

The higher up the cherry tree where grow the sweetest berries, such as the banks, private education, health care; all of these have achieved their first class ticket on the gravy train, by sly and underhanded manipulation of a behemoth political system of expedience.

The answer is of course, remove government funding altogether from higher education, and face the reality that the best education, as in all things Capitalist, is to privatise it.

Dan

Well, the asinine reliance on foreign students for funding, is a pigeon coming home to rest as is the ideological imperatives that stripped it and indeed the national broadcaster of essential funding!

And by those same climate change, coal-fired denialists who we must now hold responsible, for the worst historical bleaching event of the reef in history.

Sad commentary that it took a killer pandemic to see much of this idiotic ideology jettisoned?

And likely to resurface and impose its asinine rules and personal freedoms restrictions on us once again? Once the crisis is over?

And yet again trott out endless non-core promises and go the blame game big time to retain their positions of power and privilege.

I mean.take power junkie, Boris Johnson, grimly holding on to power from an ICU bed, and harming his own immune response with the stress that imperative imposes.

D Trump, Now unable to hold those mob psychology rallies that also worked for Hitler, to get/retain power?

As opposed to accepting, the buck stops with him in relation to America's extraordinarily unprepared, (millionaire medicine) American "public health"! And equally problematic education outcomes, not the least of which is their extraordinarily stress-loaded tertiary education and student debt levels! And consequent attrition rate/dropouts.

And our parliament of the far-right, it must be said, have tried manfully to replicate that here and look at carrying the can on that one, as their principal responsibility for rooting it?

Stress and anxiety, harm the immune response! And while young folk are less vulnerable to covid-19, they as a cohort are the most likely to carry it to the most vulnerable.

The one great hope is, the by the rollout of really effective, online learning and thereby reduce the commute and long-entrenched, regional disadvantages?

Given, the long-overdue upgrade of regional and rural NBN/broadband! And download the stress levels and up the immune response in one fell swoop?

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B

When we spend literal billions to put students through expensive tertiary education then employ them hacking cabs or pushing broom? It shows just how dumb our parliaments are, as indeed are the tin-eared, recalcitrant, control freak, power junkies that man them?

While one might expect those style of outcomes in a depression? We are not quite there yet? What will be our reality when we are?

Albeit, we might avoid that outcome if we helicopter money and use it to grow cooperative enterprises that use those expensive skills, far more appropriately?

And given that paradigm, put the entire inoculated population back into income-earning, tax-paying, productive work and become the manufacturing-based, exporter and energy superpower, we need t to become.

To,#1/ leave the place and the economy in better shape in a far more unified and egalitarian society than we found it and able therefore to make significant inroads into the debt we needed to create.

#2/ To get past the present crisis!

#3/ To ensure we use the time and money spent to replace the old business as usual BS! With a far more robust economy/fairer more egalitarian society, as our proudest moment and legacy!

#4/ because we know we will all be judged on outcomes and no harm in having/creating a modest few, we can be truly proud to personally own along with the responses we brought to the table!?

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

Chris,

Calling me pathetic only highlights your own ignorance and inability to communicate without abuse. I don't think you would ever be used as an example of the benefits of tertiary education. Enjoy your cleaning.

Hmmm, I took up a " new Blood lectureship " in 1987 and then moved to Oz, by 1992 I had seen enough, and frustrated by the stale attitudes, moved to industry and later government. Still published and supervised students held Adjunct Prof in the mid 2000's.. Still glad I lef. The University are failing due to greed and mismanagement. The students are now just material for their sausage factories. It be bemuses me that overseas students still come here to be fleeced, I would recommend it, for education, but it is a pathway to citizenship and family reconciliations, particularly India and Chaina.

If bailoutrs happen, then why not Virgin (manly chineese owned these days) and hey anyone else, Holden, Ford.... This COVID-19/96gg crisis might be ghe best think to shake up those sheltered work shops giving out degrees for hair dressing and sex toy design (Melbourne uni has courses on dildo design.

Shake them up, return to the principles of "reading for a degree", rather than this spoon feeding/no one fails crap! When an adjunct prof in an engineering faculy, I was disgusted that you could get a engrg degree without Maths!.. Crazy stuff.