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.
Maybe they have some condition which compels them to blow up medical centres, and eventually they’ll be firing missiles at hospitals in Europe because there’s none left in the region
You’re assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn’t cause damage. I doubt that.
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.
There’s an android app called URLCheck that can strip unwanted bits off the end of urls and then open them as well.
The house might look good in a sort of greeny-teal shade
Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.