S hould any younger Quadrant readers be considering higher education, they might want to pause before accepting an offer from the Australian National University. One of its students, Beatrice Tucker, recently told ABC Radio that Hamas deserved “unconditional support”, a sentiment that best captures the moral delinquency on campus of late. Although Tucker—whose pronouns, of course, are they/them —was initially expelled for her terrorist fan-girling, she was later welcomed back following an appeal and a petition signed by over 1200 students and staff.
Since her reinstatement she has wasted little time finding new ways to make a pest of herself. At the time of writing, she is running for President of the ANU Student Association on the Globalise the Resistance for Palestine! ticket. Though I hadn’t wandered quite as far to the left as Ms Tucker at the time, I misspent part of my youth as an ANU undergraduate, so my advice to prospective students also comes with the.
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Politics
Taking the Wrong Course
Studying International Relations -- wokeness, Western masochism, antipathy for one’s nation -- is no conservative’s idea of a good time