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Dan

"Academics feel undervalued."

Hence their continual interference in our lives? Their attempts to draw attention to themselves, with ridiculous, left-wing nonsense?

"Academics feel undervalued."

Hence their continual interference in our lives? Their attempts to draw attention to themselves, with ridiculous, left-wing nonsense?

This is nonsense. Academics discuss things all the time. The right wing press looks for things it can misrepresent then everyone acts as if we are all going to be forced to follow something some academic said in passing. The whole thing is part of the right wing fear/hate campaign designed to stifle any change that might make society better

It's funny to me the right saying that things are 'forced on them' but they are things they seek out in the media like crack addicts.

I agree universities ought to be fully funded places open to all!

That said, how do we pay for it from a budget stretched far beyond its limits and expected to service more than a trillion dollars of public debt. Yes we are getting a far better return from coal but not anything like what we could be earning if we hadn't handed our mining and power generating assets to tax avoiding price gouging, profit repatriating foreign investors.

Well, There's a few things we might do, begining with the creation of a new peoples' bank. And by using these new AUSTRALIAN owned, operated and controlled funds to build, AUSTRALIAN owned and operated income earning infrastructure projects. Very rapid rail, quite massive deionization dialysis desalination projects that is four times cheaper than traditional desal and cost effective for broad scale agriculture.
We need new dams but as myriad upland dams that force the landscape to hold and trickle out water to iron out feast or famine water flows!

All the above requiring affordable energy and cooperative capitalism to make them practical. And that's not today's coal, gas or the renewables, but MSR thorium.

And given a real skills shortage, usher in the guest labour concept that served post war Germany so well and made them the powerhouse economy of western Europe.

They return willingly from whence they came if 50% of their salary is withheld and only paid to them when they're back home! TBC.
Alan B.

We have just 3 choices here to run the universities as business operations open for business where foreigners and the well heeled are the clients. The Chinese model, which is also based on who has the most money power and influence. Allow the best from the rest to do what they need to survive. And continue to export our best and brightest and their better ideas to the benefit of foreign nations.

Or we can put AUSTRALIANS first and, and use a means test model to ensure the very best we have are no held back or rejected on social or underprivileged grounds.

If we do have to limit the numbers that get through or are selected?
Because of funding limitations? Then let it be an IQ test that decides outcomes rather than the size of parental bank balance, power and influence!

Finally, we were a far more inclusive and prosperous nation before we started to privatize and sell off our infrastructure, national heritage and our virtual economic sovereignty! And need to crack on build an economy that'll draw down debt and make us a nation that not only makes stuff again, but, as Australians, by Australians and for Australians.

When that was how it was done back then, we were the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a creditor one at that! We can do it for us or them! Choose!
Alan B.

universities ought to be fully funded places open to all!
Alan B,
Well, all who pass the entry requirements & show promise to become useful.
Education for education's sake is disastrous as we're now experiencing.
We desperately need educated people to reduce the number of Academics who constantly throw mindless spanners into the gears of society !