Tertiary institutions will be barred from taking stances on non-core issues.
Summarised by Centrist
The coalition government is implementing new free speech rules for universities to counter what it describes as a “risk-averse approach” to freedom of expression. Associate Education Minister David Seymour criticised deplatforming trends, saying universities must uphold academic freedom as required by law. Tertiary institutions will draft freedom of speech statements and be barred from taking stances on non-core issues. Changes take effect next year.
“A comprehensive and consistent view of the flood risks across the country.”
“Serious and repeated failures...”
“Some children as young as 12 were commenced on puberty blockers, with others on testosterone, without adequate documentation of assessments or monitoring.
“The next move looks more likely to be up than down.”
The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.
This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep their highly processed junk food eligible for food stamps.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.
