How much money is being wasted on unnecessary University degrees?
In the same way there is too much taxpayer money being wasted on unnecessary jobs in the bureaucracy, the same goes for University Academia.
Rachel Gunns PhD on the intersection of gender and breakdancing shows just how frivolous Universities have become. Australians cannot afford to have their taxpayer dollars wasted on this frivolity.
They desperately need a tax cut to provide some cost of living relief. It’s time funding for Universities and Bureaucracies were slashed to help pay for income tax cuts.
Senate on 13/08/2024
Item: STATEMENTS BY SENATORS – Universities
Senator RENNICK (Queensland) (13:30): Rachael Gunn’s performance of breakdancing at the Olympics has shone a light on the culture of entitlement and frivolity in Australian academia. How many billions of dollars are wasted on useless degrees at universities? We have a skills shortage in this country because we aren’t training our children in the skills that matter. Not only do we allow universities to engage in such frivolity, we actually subsidise it. Meanwhile, thousands of Australians are homeless because we do not have enough tradies to build the homes to house the hundreds of thousands of foreign university students and immigrants we have to import to deal with the skills shortage, because we aren’t actually teaching our children the trades to build houses, grow the crops and add value to our manufacturing sector. It’s time that we cleaned up the rorts in the university sector, started to focus on our trades and started getting more children into those trades.
