Disgraceful, woke universities where 1.08 million international students buy their bachelor degrees

Universities were castigating Trump for taking $400m US funding from them – is it any wonder why?

By Adam Piggott

Australia enjoys the rare security of not sharing a common border with a foreign nation. Invaders are not able to seep through a porous border with ease. And even if they could, the harsh reality of the Australian environment would be a foreboding deterrent. In the early 2000s many illegal immigrants attempted to reach Australia by boat via people smugglers based in south east Asia. The left wing Labor government of the time did almost nothing to stop this occurring, publicly stating that the crisis was impossible to resolve. On gaining power in a federal election fought with the border crisis at the forefront, the conservative Liberal party stopped the boats in a matter of weeks.

But while halting the very public and illegal breaches of the nation’s borders, politicians from both sides of the house were scheming to trash Australia’s border security in a technically legal and more insidious manner.

Last week it was revealed that a record 200,000 immigrants arrived to the nation in February.

According to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 201,490 foreigners arrived on student visas in February, a 15% increase on the same month last year, and 10% more than the previous record set in February 2019 under the previous Coalition government.

The record arrivals come after the Labor pledged to reduce migration during the 2022 election campaign, only to preside over the arrival of about 1.5 million immigrants since the election in May last year, dwarfing its own migration forecasts.

It goes without saying that the vast majority of these immigrants come from India or China; one only has to look at our streets to understand that reality. How many total international students are studying in Australian universities at any one time?

According to Education Department data, in the year to November 2024 there were 1,081,300 international student enrolments, a 12% increase year-on-year.

International students pay far more for the privilege of studying in Australian than native Australians do. The cost of studying for a bachelor degree in Australian for international students is between $20,000 and $45,000 annually. With 1,000,000 international students, the annual revenue is thus between $20 and $45 billion dollars.

Universities, while once places of learning where the nation’s top minds could be developed such as to be an asset for the country, are now instead degree factories whose business is churning out increasingly worthless credentials for customers willing to pay the price. One cannot refer to these people as students for the simple fact that as paying customers they are not permitted to fail a course. In fact, many don’t even speak or write English to anywhere near the level which would normally be required to pass a bachelor degree.

So the question is, if these degrees are so worthless, just why are so many Chinese and Indians forking out this much money to study in Australia when they could far more easily purchase a similar degree in their native countries? The answer is that the degree is not the end product. Rather, it is permanent residency in Australia. After sitting through the required three years to purchase a bachelor degree, the international student is allowed to work in Australia for up to five years. After five years, the individual is eligible to apply for permanent residency.

During that time, the student’s family members in their native country will funnel money into Australia via their chosen relative so as to purchase multiple properties in the country. Once the former student obtains permanent residency they can then begin to import their family members into Australia. It takes a large family network back in India to pool the necessary financial resources to make this happen, all of whom will want to get into the country.

As a result, house prices have gone through the roof. This is the backbone of the Australian economy. But it gets worse, if that is even possible. Our universities are open hotbeds of Marxist indoctrination. It was revealed last week that law students at Macquarie University are required to participate in woke ideology and nativist pagan practices as a requirement for passing their courses.

Law students at Macquarie University face the threat of failing a key exam if they perform an ­underwhelming acknowledgement of country or refuse to ­acknowledge traditional Abor­iginal owners at all, in a move ­labelled “indoctrination” by Indigenous leaders.

The presentation is worth 30 per cent of the final course mark and students have been told the acknowledgement of country is one of the key five marking areas. The demand to perform a “thoughtful”, “culturally respectful” and “exceptionally well-written” ode to Aboriginal traditional owners at the start of an oral law exam is despite the course on “age and the law” having no direct ­relation to Indigenous matters.

So while international students can simply purchase their degrees, Australian students are being forced to kowtow to far left political activists in the few remaining courses that might actually be valuable. Writing in The Australian, Janet Albrechtsen took aim at the university and revealed its list of leaders when she demanded answers to the scandal:

The big universities in Australia are self-accrediting, meaning they set their own courses and degrees. So we must look to vice-chancellor Bruce Dowton, chancellor Martin Parkinson and a council stuffed to the gunwales with apparently accomplished people, including deputy chancellor Louise Mason, Professor Jacqueline Phillips, Michael Book, Associate Professor Nikola Balnave, Lyn Cobley, Professor Catherine Dean, Deborah Hadwen, Mikaela Jade, Jingmin Qian, Jongho Roh, Dr Stuart Upton and Frank Zipfinger …

… Dowton earns more than $1m a year to run Macquarie University.

The others on the list will undoubtedly enjoy similar sky high salaries. How can one university in a Melbourne suburb be able to pay such money while simultaneously caring little that the university staff run riot with unaccountable and uncontrolled political activism?

$45 billion dollars a year is a lot of graft, for all concerned. But underlining all of this is the now unignorable and ugly consequence of the university industry; the displacement of the native Australian population by millions of foreigners, a mass invasion brought about by the greed and ambition of those elected or trusted to lead the nation and its institutions.

The Macquarie case underlines the fact that the universities themselves are doomed. The only remedy is to tear them down and to salt the ground upon which they once stood so that they can do no more damage, and so that their ruins may remain as a testament to national betrayal and the folly of believing in the great democratic and materialistic lie.

And then there will remain the matter of several million foreigners to repatriate. Send them all back to whence they came. And make those pay for it that aided, abetted and profited from this great betrayal.