Good afternoon lads, this afternoon we're discussing CCP interference into our universities!
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UNSW's decision to remove social media posts about the erosion of human rights in Hong Kong has attracted a warning from Education Minister Dan Tehan, who said universities should prize free speech as a pillar of Australian democracy.
The university was embroiled in controversy over the weekend when it deleted social media posts and altered an online article following an online protest from Chinese nationalists. The backlash was fuelled by a Sydney-based lawyer with links to the Chinese consulate, who called for students to launch a campaign against UNSW to correct the university's political views.
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The CCP has also established a new online portal that allows people to refer their compatriots to police for political crimes.
The portal, which is accessible in Australia, allows allegations to be made against dissidents for "attacking the party, the state system and major policies," endangering national security, harming the national image and slandering heroes.
Kevin Carrico, a senior lecturer at Monash University, said people of Chinese ethnicity at Australian universities deal with a "type of pressure that is just considerably more intimidating than anything your average student faces".
"I have had students who have had their families pressured simply because they did a presentation on the situation in Tibet or they discussed the historical events of 1989," he said.
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China 'exporting CCP speech controls to Australia' as second university caught in row
The Chinese Communist Party is harnessing an online cyber policing portal, accessible in Australia, to increase its international influence, as it encourages Chinese internet users to dob in acts that undermine Beijing's image.
Australian universities have been engulfed in a fresh row over academic freedom after co-ordinated protests from nationalist Chinese students forced UNSW to take down social media posts critical of the Chinese Communist Party's actions in Hong Kong. UNSW vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs on Wednesday apologised for the decision, telling staff there was "no excuse for our failure in this instance" and the social media posts should never have been removed.
"I apologise for this mistake and reaffirm unequivocally our previous commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom," he said.
A second Australian educational institution was embroiled in controversy on Wednesday after Charles Darwin University apologised following complaints from Chinese students. The students said an introduction to an assignment was racist after it stated that the coronavirus had originated in China.
The Chinese Communist Party is harnessing an online cyber policing portal, accessible in Australia, to increase its international influence, as it encourages Chinese internet users to dob in acts that undermine Beijing's image.
Australian universities have been engulfed in a fresh row over academic freedom after co-ordinated protests from nationalist Chinese students forced UNSW to take down social media posts critical of the Chinese Communist Party's actions in Hong Kong. UNSW vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs on Wednesday apologised for the decision, telling staff there was "no excuse for our failure in this instance" and the social media posts should never have been removed.
"I apologise for this mistake and reaffirm unequivocally our previous commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom," he said.
The Chinese Communist Party's Cyberspace Administration portal has encouraged Chinese residents to report political crimes online.
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What an absolute joke, Chinese students encouraged to be good little communists here in Australia and report their own citizens to the CCP for speaking out against their government so their families back home get effected.
Our universities filtering information that the CCP may not approve of.
I reckon there should be a charter of universities that they have to follow if they want government funding, if they don't follow the charter then they don't get government funding and we can determine which ones are on CCP payroll that way.
This way you and your children can make the call on which university is on CCP payroll or not, the CCP ones can educate all the Chinese foreign nationals they want and the rest of us can go to the one that's not on Chinese government books.