As I wrote recently, I have never wished anyone cancelled, but I have read some career obituaries with great satisfaction.
In that particular case, I was referring to Australia’s most hateful demented feminist green-left harpy getting herself permanently banned from all Meta platforms.
Little did I know that my week of schadenfreude was only just getting started.
Monash University is proposing to close and break up its flagship climate crisis institute, leaving scores of academics and staff fearing for their jobs.
This might explain in some part the sheer deluge of absolutely ludicrous alarmism ‘predictions’ that have been flooding local media in recent weeks. And here was I, thinking they were just gearing up for their usual summer of dementoid shrieking. Could it be that they’re just desperately sandbagging their jobs?
This masthead has obtained a series of acrimonious emails from the centre’s director, Professor Tony Capon, addressed to vice chancellor Sharon Pickering. Capon copied several senior managers on the email chain and forwarded it to staff and PhD students at the institute.
In the emails, Capon, whose job will “no longer be required” under the proposed changes, issued a series of demands and complaints about the university’s handling of the restructure.
To quote Kaspar Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) from The Maltese Falcon, “You seem to forget that you are not in a position to insist upon anything.”
The change management plan distributed to staff notes the closure would “reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and optimise the use of resources”.
Golly: inefficiency, badly used resources, over-staffing with middle-management types…? Who do they think they are? Public servants?
Meanwhile, 200 climate troughers are set to join the dole queue. Stop. I can only take so much hilarity.
The Sustainable Development Institute houses more than 200 scientists and staff working across the climate crisis, flooding, recycling and bushfires. It is home to the highly respected Climateworks think tank, and has distributed millions of dollars raised from philanthropists for resilience projects in fire- and flood-affected communities in Victoria and NSW […]
Staff, however, are fearful of “redundancies by stealth”. Many staff members are employed on short-term contracts that expire early next year and fear the university will not renew them. They have been told they will be renewed based on the “operational needs” of their new departments.
“The institute will vanish in a puff of smoke,” said Ben Eltham, Monash branch president of the National Tertiary Education Union.
Well, cry me a river.
Seeing these unhinged, grifting lunatics out on their ears will at least be some consolation for the damage they’ve helped wreak on Western society.
This should just be the start: even better would be seeing the entire university sector sacked and the universities dismantled and rebuilding from scratch.
