Greens Senator for NSW and Education Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has welcomed Murdoch University\u2019s decision to drop their counter claim for financial damages against academic whistleblower Dr Gerd Schr\u00f6der-Turk but has said they should drop the entire suit. Dr Schr\u00f6der-Turk spoke publicly about his concerns regarding inadequacies in Murdoch University\u2019s policies for recruiting international students in 2019.
\nDr Schr\u00f6der-Turk is challenging the University\u2019s decision to remove him from the university Senate following his comments and is being counter-sued by Murdoch University.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cAcademic freedom in essential to our universities. University staff must be free to critique their institutions without fear of reprisals like the one targeted at whistleblower Dr Schr\u00f6der-Turk.
\n\u201cThe University has dropped the financial component of their claim only after sustained pressure and a public relations disaster, but it continues to pursue Dr Schroeder-Turk because he spoke out about university practices he was concerned about. The University\u2019s decision to remove him from the Senate is just as objectionable \u2013 and just as much a PR disaster \u2013 as their abandoned pursuit of financial damages.
\n\u201cI stand with Gerd, university staff and their union in their defence of the academic freedom that underpins our universities.
\n\u201cI\u2019m deeply concerned Murdoch University\u2019s unprecedented legal action against Dr Schroeder-Turk is having a silencing effect on other academics and whistleblowers. The University should admit it was wrong and drop the entire case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens Senator for NSW and Education Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has welcomed Murdoch University\u2019s decision to drop their counter claim for financial damages against academic whistleblower Dr Gerd Schr\u00f6der-Turk but has said they should drop the entire suit. Dr Schr\u00f6der-Turk spoke publicly about his concerns regarding inadequacies in Murdoch University\u2019s policies for recruiting international students … Continue reading “Murdoch University Must Drop Whole Case Against Academic Whistleblower”<\/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-4854","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\/4854","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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}