Isn’t this a clear demonstration of corruption by the ALP?

Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.

It’s not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:

“Preferences should not be a thing in Queensland elections, and it won’t be if government changes,” he said.

This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.

Definitely not something a corrupt person would say.

Even with a 10% pay cut the VC will be remunerated over $1,000,000 per year, even despite the university’s poor financial performance.

Afaik the ANU VC earns about $650k (here). Not that this isn’t probably 6-8x what most others in the university earn.

Pretty much agree with everything you say though. I’m about to graduate from ANU and I’m glad to be leaving tbh.

I would just add that, while the unis are managed poorly, the cuts to the sector by successive governments can’t be excused.

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That’s not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

It really can’t be that hard to be better than Dutton. Truly astounding.

You’re assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn’t cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

The headline reads like an onion article.

Guess we need the NACC to investigate the NACC

It’s okay, they can use AI to teach it to save money

Fines that were actually enforced properly might work. In general though I think the feds probably need to run an education campaign about AI.

The house might look good in a sort of greeny-teal shade

It’s funny because I can’t even see the LNP coming up with something this bad.

This has already cost what, $430B? We should just throw in another few billion and build our own diesel subs for safety.