{"id":33156,"date":"2025-06-13T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=33156"},"modified":"2025-06-13T00:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:50:56","slug":"monash-uni-must-dump-dirty-woodside-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/monash-uni-must-dump-dirty-woodside-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Monash uni must dump dirty Woodside partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Higher Education Spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called on Monash University to dump its partnership with climate wreckers Woodside Energy amid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-qptuit-dtdkhihdlr-y\/\">staff concerns<\/a>&nbsp;about attempts to cover up a \u201cclimate change and energy transition\u201d conference with the gas giant at the university\u2019s Prato campus in June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Earlier this year, Senator Mehreen Faruqi introduced a Bill that requires universities to disclose and divest from any partnerships with dirty industries, including fossil fuel companies and weapons manufacturers. This Bill and Explanatory Memorandum can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-qptuit-dtdkhihdlr-j\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Senator Mehreen Faruqi:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of covering up its partnership with Woodside, Monash should rip it up altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUniversities should be places that advance the public good, not help morally bankrupt companies like Woodside greenwash their reputation and muddy the science as they torch the planet for profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast month, Woodside got approval from the Labor Government to proceed with the most polluting fossil fuel project in the Southern Hemisphere. That should be a red line for Monash University, especially since it will be young people, like Monash students, who will bear the brunt of climate collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe funding cuts of successive federal Governments have led universities to cozy up to companies like Woodside Energy and Elbit Systems which profiteer from the destruction of people and planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Albanese Government must commit to fully funding universities to be places of democracy, equity and public good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens stand in solidarity with Stop Woodside Monash, and will keep pushing all universities to disclose and divest from dirty industries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Higher Education Spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called on Monash University to dump its partnership with climate wreckers Woodside Energy amid&nbsp;staff concerns&nbsp;about attempts to cover up a \u201cclimate change and energy transition\u201d conference with the gas giant at the university\u2019s Prato campus in June 2024. Earlier this year, Senator Mehreen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/monash-uni-must-dump-dirty-woodside-partnership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monash uni must dump dirty Woodside partnership&#8221;<\/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-33156","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\/33156","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=33156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33157,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions\/33157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}