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The Dalai Lama's Not Welcomed on Campus.

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Lexi my sweet, I know you are a kind & trusting soul, but really it is time to open your eyes.

Once upon a time, in a far off & distant land universities were institutions of learning & scholarship. Alas this was far away indeed, & in a very different time.

To expect to find any ethics or morality in the institutions in Oz today, is being far too optimistic. It just will not be found.

You only have to look to the hundreds of millions in research grants they have accepted for global warming fantasy, when their own senior physicists would have been advising them it couldn't happen, to see their feet of clay.

So sorry for your disillusionment gentle lady, but welcome to the real world, where universities are simply business that excel at acquiring taxpayer funds, & most certainly will never let anything like the truth, or honour interfere with that activity.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:49:25 AM
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Lexi, you asked; "is Sydney University
committed to free and open debate?"

Of course it is! Its just that the debate is more freer and more open depending on how big your cheque book is. The theme song at Sydney Uni is now..."I like Chinese, they only come up to your knees...I.... like Chineseeees." Them there Chinese have one hell of a big cheque book.
So that the debate remains free and open the VC at Sydney Uni thinks that Dalai fella should be able to speak, but just not on his Campos, preferable from a cave on top of Mt Everest.
Posted by Paul1405, Saturday, 20 April 2013 7:53:21 AM
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Arjay do you know if The Western Banking Military Industrial Complex, WBMIC for short have a branch at Westfields, I thought I might open an account with 'em, what's their interest rates like?
Posted by Paul1405, Saturday, 20 April 2013 8:11:07 AM
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Thanks to all the contributors thus far.

And, as I stated earlier - there are few reasons to be
surprised at this state of affairs. Universities
political and economic circumstances nowdays encourage
them to pipe to their funder's tunes, that's for sure.
And in this case - it is obviously China. They have
the China Studies Centre on campus which is ultimately
answerable to the Chinese Communist Party, and which is not
subject to scholarly review. American academics have
commented on Sydney University's stance and have made it
quite clear that China does wield tremendous influence
and that the Dalai Lama is someone that they strongly
object to appearing on any campus which receives funding
from them.

I'm still hoping that somehow the student body at Sydney
University will stand up for their rights and will insist
that the denial of a forum to the Dalai Lama goes against
the university's traditional liberal-humanist values.

The university has to be made to realise that they cannot
feel entitled to publicly profess one thing and then act
totally differently.

Perhaps I am being naive.
Posted by Lexi, Saturday, 20 April 2013 8:19:32 AM
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Hmmm, China Studies Centre ?
Chinese government organisations buying large farming areas such as
Cubby station ?
Will they be staffed by 457 visa holders ?
Will their products be exported at cost ?
No tax payable.

Is it unreasonable to be suspicious ?
Are we being invaded ?
Posted by Bazz, Saturday, 20 April 2013 10:30:31 AM
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Nah,Bazz starffed by part time employees from the Golden Dragon take-away in Dixon Street. Order me a short soup...please!
Posted by Paul1405, Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:38:23 PM
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