Australian politics are in a firestorm over the possibility of favors for mates, and emails to public servants that may or may not be fake. Nothing makes sense… here are some questions about the situation that there seem to be no answers to.
1. If Godwin Grech was just a rogue public servant acting alone, why [...]
It’s raining money, because the Government has so much to spend.
5.7 Billion dollars over four years to “science and universities.”
But it’s not enough to simply give the science funding lobby money up to the eyeballs, it wants to pick winners as well, through the “$1.1 billion Super Science Initiative, which will fund infrastructure to [...]
American Universities have been hurting from the global financial crisis. Now apparently Australian universities are hitting tough times too: top universities bleeding millions. The fact that they are ‘public sector’ didn’t insulate them after all.
The crash of the universities’ financial reserves, which will reduce their ability to fund building projects, scholarships and research, will add [...]
…we can lecture other countries.
But also because “tens of thousands of Australian lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs and some of our most beautiful places, including the Great Barrier Reef, are at stake.”
That too. Because Australia can stop global warming on our own simply by taxing ourselves.