HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 19.115
Provider to have policy upholding free intellectual inquiry
A higher education provider… must have a policy that upholds free intellectual inquiry in relation to learning, teaching and research.
Just eight of Australia's 42 universities have such policies. The Australian National University is not one of them.
Universities in Australia are falling away from modernist thinking like nine pins. Not for them the application of reason to the best ascertainable facts. Not for them the grand narratives of Western Civilisation.
Post modernism rules. Facts are mutably interpreted according to how they feel or fit the propositions of left wing social theory. Group Identity therapy, hurt feelings and spaces safe from facts trump science. For them the difference between male and female has nothing to do with biological science. The sex of a homo sapien is manipulatable at will, a mere a social political construct.
Into the gaping door of social and political “Academia for sale” social construction strides the far left “Get-up” with “grants” for research reports that target their political opponents.
At the same time, since 1970, “Teachers Colleges” began churning out three year vocational training for school teachers, replacing the need for a bachelor’s degree plus a post graduate diploma in education. Even at the time senior lecturers were dismayed at bureaucratic directions to re-mark failing embryo teachers who could barely add up or write a grammatically adequate sentence. Such graduates are now University Professors, incapable of academic rigour who turn instead to left wing feel good politics. https://search.library.unisa.edu.au/record/9916143508901831/media/digital/open/9916143508901831/12147147330001831/13147147320001831/pdf
Silencing by legislation, and regulation, and physical attack is the approved left wing post-modernist academic response to its opposition.
The Lindsay Shepherd scandal is a prime example. A post-graduate student in a faculty of communications conducted a tutorial on how to think. She presented an extract from a TV debate which had three different points of view being argued. Because she did not “warn” students that one of the participants who was non-left wing had views that were “wrong and unacceptable” – before they viewed it !? - she was brought before a tribunal of the university and pilloried for daring to let the students think. (Wilfrid Laurier University Ontario.)
HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT ACT 2003 - SECT 19.115
Provider to have policy upholding free intellectual inquiry
A higher education provider… must have a policy that upholds free intellectual inquiry in relation to learning, teaching and research.
Just eight of Australia's 42 universities have such policies. The Australian National University is not one of them.
Meanwhile the University of Sydney blocked screening a film. Monash University has trigger warnings in course guides. James Cook University pillories an academic for comments about the Great Barrier Reef's health. Monash University withdrew a textbook because a quiz question offended international students from China, the academic who set the question was also suspended and has since left the university. The University of Sydney requires conservative students to pay security fees which are not charged for the activities of other student groups. https://ipa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IPA-Report-Free-Speech-on-Campus-Audit-2017.pdf
Why is the Higher Education Act not enforced?
Is it too late?
Universities across Australia examine “Islamophobia”, such examinations are always under the guidance of a Muslim and start with the assumption that such a phenomena exists. The University of SA defined Islamophobia in such a way that even Muslim respondents to their survey were deemed Islamophobic. https://johnwbolton.weebly.com/blog/john-bolton-appointed-professor
No wonder the extremist left Greens want children to be given the vote while they are still in the charge of their left wing mentors at School.
Why would it not be attractive for a 16 year old to be told they are going to be given a wage of $20-40,000 with no obligation to work (greens policy) if they will just vote for the feel good, safe space, no hurt feelings party as their in-house school teacher political mentors preach.
Our children are not taught that suppression of free speech always becomes necessary to maintain extreme left politics and it always manifests such profound oppression that millions and millions of the regimes own citizens die. 70 million in the Soviet Union under Stalin. 30 million under Mao in China and happening now in Venezuela.
The lie is that extreme left politics has not been given a fair go.
Many University Professors of the western world over are now saying that our Universities are lost.
The Grand Narratives of Western Civilisation are no longer being taught. They say that is a bad thing.
It seems that the only remedy may be to start a University of Australia. A university that actually complies with the Federal Legislation, that actually has an Academic Freedom Policy, that actually teaches our children how to think, that actually teaches them the best facts available, or how to find them, and does not shield them from but prepares them for the real world.
John Bolton 2nd May 2018.