Hi Armchair Critic,

I beg to differ from your take on our universities.

One of the important reasons why Australia's higher
education is recognized today by the world is that
it has many excellent universities some of which
are even among the top 100 in the world. Which is no
small achievement.

These ancient Australian Universities have not only
achieved great academic achievements but also have
a good reputation both locally and internationally.

They are a first choice for many students.

The University of Sydney - 1850.
The University of Melbourne - 1853.
The University of Adelaide - 1874.
The University of Tasmania - 1890.
The University of Queensland - 1909.
The University of Western Australia - 1911.

It's something we can all be proud of - because it's both
the faculty, staff and students have made the reputations
of these places - and they come from a very wide mix of people.
Which is why they have succeeded and will continue to do so.

Foxy,
'Retard Circus' is all I can come up with to describe the level of intelligence I see from student protestors...

I'm not saying all of them, but a fair percentage of them.
And I'm not talking about 100 years ago, I'm talking about what we've been seeing recently, they're as radicalised in their beliefs as any other dangerous group, have you forgotten antifa?

The problem is the good ones go and do constructive things that benefit the country, whereas the bad ones, they get elevated to positions where they run the country.

So we can agree to disagree.

Hi Armchair Critic,

I don't know of any "bad ones" running the country.
So we shall have to agree to disagree on this.
Achievers are usually too busy working hard to achieve
their goals.
The noise makers on the other hand -
don't as a rule last very long.

No power problem in Aussie, just connect Mr Potato Head and his Tory cronies up to a turbine, they're full of so much hot air they should supply enough gas to light up a city the size of Adelaide!

hey Foxy,
Would you believe the most popular degrees our leaders have are law degrees and in almost equal second place is arts degrees?
http://www.torrens.edu.au/blog/what-degrees-ministers-australia-have-and-why-it-matters

I wonder if the students with arts degrees are the same ones I've seen standing on desks spitting at their lecturers for misgendering them?
- Video available on request, and as a bonus I'll throw in a free trigglypuff
(feel free to google it if you don't know what that is)

tbbn,

Suggesting there has been a political shift due to immigration only sounds not only extremely "conspiratorial" to me but also rather paranoid.

When you're jammed all the way to the right by definition, everyone else must be to the left - including moderates and traditional conservatives.
As for moving to the extreme right, what party is attracting membership by radical extremist groups and Pentecostals and which one is now to the right of the Liberal Party now?
Name one, please!

It's no longer those One Nations drones attracted to "the Worrior Princess" who has nothing but "a gutful" of whatever is in the news at the time because Howard dragged the Liberals toward her, not the other way around. Since then they have moved even further in that direction.

What analysts are you referring to? The voices in your head perhaps?