Comments on: China’s threat to academic freedom

By: Sptay

Sptay — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:19:31 +0000

If you fear getting wet, don’t go out into the water. Same thing with China, don’t want to be influenced, stop lusting for their money…period.
In any transaction, there are the give and take….there is no free lunch.
Stop lusting for their money..and you don’t have to fear their influence.

By: Julia Perry

Julia Perry — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 20:51:21 +0000

Turnbull’s crazed shrieking criticism of Sam Dastyari’s Chinese connections stands at odds with his silence on his own party’s, and corporate Australia’s, suppression of discussion on China and its influence.

By: Olga_Krasnyak

Olga_Krasnyak — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 07:30:45 +0000

I realize that the question here is about academic freedom in Australia, although I confirm that those rare Chinese students in my classes are not aware of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The “Tank man” episode is unknown.
Such historical narrative strictly opposes democratic values.

By: Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:29:07 +0000

Thank you Daniel for this article. You are one of a very small number (3 or 4) of academics who have publicly expressed alarm about what has happened. Otherwise I have heard only silence about this serious assault on the academic freedom of all researchers and teachers in Australian universities. Where is the union? Where are the academies? Where are the disciplinary associations? Where is Universities Australia? Isn’t failure to resist the erosion of freedom complicity in it?