Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Higher Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has strongly condemned Peter Dutton\u2019s latest remarks about cracking down on so-called \u2018woke\u2019 ideology at universities. She warned that this is yet another dangerous attempt by the Coalition to police academic freedom, silence progressive voices, and impose ideological control over higher education institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Coalition\u2019s pathetic Trump-style attempt to control what’s taught in our universities will be nothing short of authoritarian censorship. It is dangerous, unwanted and has no place in our universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the latest desperate effort by Peter Dutton and the Liberals to manufacture a culture war to distract from their lack of genuine policies or solutions to the issues people are facing. When it comes to education, the Coalition has no vision beyond control, fear and division. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Ministerial interventions in university curricula are an attack on academic independence. What\u2019s next\u2014Dutton personally vetting lecture notes? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUniversities must be places of inquiry and rigorous debate, not vehicles to serve conservative politicians looking for cheap headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Let\u2019s be clear: The Coalition cannot stand the idea of young people engaging with progressive ideas or questioning the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis election the Greens will keep Dutton and his Trump-like politics out and get Labor to act on wiping all student debt and making uni and TAFE free. You can\u2019t keep voting for the two major parties expecting a different result\u2014if you want change, you have to vote for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Higher Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has strongly condemned Peter Dutton\u2019s latest remarks about cracking down on so-called \u2018woke\u2019 ideology at universities. She warned that this is yet another dangerous attempt by the Coalition to police academic freedom, silence progressive voices, and impose ideological control over higher … Continue reading “Greens slam Coalition\u2019s Trump-style crackdown on universities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32192,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions\/32192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}