Courier Mail Tues 2nd Dec 2025 Opinion by Mike O'Connor.


Quote:

Universities given millions for absurd research grants While families struggle with soaring costs, universities pocket millions for research into Aboriginal space exploration, public dunny design and pornography, writes Mike O’Connor. If you’re doing it tough – and it seems that the poor get poorer every year while the rich get richer – then you could consider applying for a grant from the Australian Research Council. You might care to title your application A Study Into Why I Can’t Feed The Kids or maybe How To Work Two Jobs And Still Have the Arse Out of Your Trousers. Don’t bother putting your hand out for money to create an Indigenous policy for “culturally respectful and environmentally responsible space exploration”, because that’s already been taken, with the University of Newcastle getting $528,491 to “embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy”, according to the ARC’s grants list for 2026. This research will aim to “broaden understandings of outer space by identifying and supporting Aboriginal connections between space and life on Earth’’ while contributing to culturally respectful and environmentally responsible space exploration, the ARC says. ;D ;D ;D It is, of course, incredibly important to do this, given that Australia does not have, and never will have, a space exploration program. Still, if we ever do, it’s reassuring to know we will have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge to back us up. I wish I’d thought of it first. The more creatively minded among you might have thought to have a crack at getting a handout for reimagining public toilets. Sorry. That one’s been taken too, with Monash University pocketing $712,282 to do what could be described in non-scholarly terms as a deep dive into public dunnies. What the boys and girls from Monash will seek to do with this money – and we must hope that the research group is gender-inclusive – is “reimagine Australian public toilet infrastructure as a multi-purpose amenity shaped by diverse socio values and cultural needs”. “In the context of rapid urban change this project deploys a needs-based approach to public toilet design to speculate on a contemporary, inclusive amenity for sanitation,” it says. I’m all for needs-based. I can never find one when I feel the need. Wondering who to blame for the fact that electricity prices have gone up by 37 per cent in the past 12 months? Sydney’s University of Notre Dame should be able to help, after it’s spent $490,495 of your money working on a new theory of “what blame is, what it is for and how it can be used for both good and bad”. ::) ::) “The project will fill a significant gap in our understanding of the moral emotions and how blame can be abused,’’ the university says. If you want to get a financial leg-up by winning the research equivalent of Gold Lotto, then you are going to have to think outside the square, like the academic from Monash University who scored $525,650 to watch online pornography. The end result of this will help us understand “porn creation as a form of digital sexual labour using qualitative methods that centre the experiences of porn creators and audiences”. Yes, I know – you wish you’d thought of it first. There’s more, much more, with RMIT University scoring $463,655 to “decolonise cultural policies’’, while the Australian National University will spend $352,449 to transform our understanding of women’s handwriting. There’s an opening for you there. How about lobbing a request for a $500k handout to transform our understanding of men’s handwriting. Under the previous Coalition government, the education minister had the right to veto projects he or she felt were without merit, a power removed by the current Labor government. If all else fails, then your best shot might be to make it your business in the new year to get a job in the federal public service, for according to the Institute of Public Affairs, public service workers on average now make 26 per cent more than their colleagues in the private sector, earning about $96,309 a year compared with $76,424. Get in the queue to sign up. With the federal public service growing by 5.6 per cent to 386,000 this financial year compared with a population growth of 1.6 per cent, you’ve got to be a good chance to score a gig. Since Albo moved in to The Lodge there has been a near 25 per cent increase in the public service headcount, and only one in three turn up in the office five days a week. I’m working on my own research grant application for next year: $1m to research the precise location of every public toilet in the country.

Any wonder the country has gone to the dogs & what we churn out of Universities is just bunkum.  >:(

You could not make this poo up. The lunatics really are running the asylum.

It would seem that that the public consensus here is that they are fine with millions of taxpayers money being wasted on these absurd useless studies being granted by public servants in the Australian Research Council who are answerable to the Minister of Education Jason Clare.

Universities, like the public service and the media, have been totally captured by the worst kind of activist loons.

No absurdity is too outlandish for them, in fact they are the incubators of ever more outlandish nonsense.

They are Stalinists in their enforcement of ideological conformity.

Q.
Can the political class of executive government [either Federal or State],
be held accountable for the wasteful spending of taxpayers money ?

ANSWER;
No.

i.e.
Q.
When was the last time that a politician in Australia was ever charged,
convicted in a court of law,
and then imprisoned, for criminal negligence,
in their RECKLESS dispersement of.....>> taxpayers money << ?



'Its money, for old rope.'   .....as the proverb goes.

But that money is not coming out of the pockets of the political class.


.


Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
           part of.......capitalism is the unequal sharing/distribution of wealth


"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
- Margaret Thatcher

Quote:

If all else fails, then your best shot might be to make it your business in the new year to get a job in the federal public service, for according to the Institute of Public Affairs, public service workers on average now make 26 per cent more than their colleagues in the private sector, earning about $96,309 a year compared with $76,424.

It's Albo's way of solving unemployment -

use borrowed money to create worthless jobs in the public service.
The next Liberal Govt will have to cut costs and become unpopular
when they try to pay all the money back -
then Labor gets back in and borrows big time again -
rinse and repeat until there's nothing left and we're a failed State.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2025 at 11:16pm:

Quote: If all else fails, then your best shot might be to make it your business in the new year to get a job in the federal public service, for according to the Institute of Public Affairs, public service workers on average now make 26 per cent more than their colleagues in the private sector, earning about $96,309 a year compared with $76,424. It's Albo's way of solving unemployment - use borrowed money to create worthless jobs in the public service. The next Liberal Govt will have to cut costs and become unpopular when they try to pay all the money back - then Labor gets back in and borrows big time again - rinse and repeat until there's nothing left and we're a failed State.

When China invades they'll solve your unemployment problem, Blooby

Marla wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 2:21am:

When China invades they'll solve your unemployment problem, Blooby

Martha,
My name is Bobby  -  sir Bobby to you.

When the Chinese invade the Yanks will send their soldiers to die for us.
That will mean your sorry arse too.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 6:03am:

Marla wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 2:21am: When China invades they'll solve your unemployment problem, Blooby Martha, My name is Bobby  -  sir Bobby to you. When the Chinese invade the Yanks will send their soldiers to die for us. That will mean your sorry arse too.

bobby,

Americans have their own problems with runaway reckless spending by Marxists in government.

I doubt they will have enough energy left to save their Marxist allies too.  !! ??

------ >



$8 billion scandal ROCKS Minnesota
as lawmakers demand crackdown

08 min
December 6th, 2025

https://old.bitchute.com/video/sC8SZwBBSz4/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC8SZwBBSz4



Quote:

Fox News correspondent Garrett Tenney and Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, comment on a massive fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota's welfare system, potentially exceeding $8 billion, on ‘America Reports.’

Our politicians AND theirs......

THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR RECKLESS, SELFISH, BEHAVIOUR.

Yadda,

Quote:

bobby, Americans have their own problems with runaway reckless spending by Marxists in government. I doubt they will have enough energy left to save their Marxist allies too.  !! ??

I hope you're wrong - the Chinese are on their way here now. 

They are already buying up all our real estate.  :o

Bobby. wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 7:22am:

Yadda, Quote: bobby, Americans have their own problems with runaway reckless spending by Marxists in government. I doubt they will have enough energy left to save their Marxist allies too.  !! ?? I hope you're wrong - the Chinese are on their way here now.  They are already buying up all our real estate.  :o

Words for Australia AND America, from my KJV bible bobby.....

A prediction, of what will always come....upon foolish, reckless people.



Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel,
and would none of my reproof:
26  I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your fear cometh;
27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;
when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29  For that they hated knowledge,
and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30  They would none of my counsel:
they despised all my reproof.
31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices.
32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

In America, Democrats are [it looks like!] actually 'buying' the votes of those [i.e. 'immigrant Democrat voters'], persons who are defrauding [being enriched by] American taxpayers.

Democrat politicians in America know it is happening [it looks like!] !

And Democrat politicians are simply choosing, to 'look the other away'.


Q.
Is more or less the same process being slyly practiced, in Australia too, by politicians ???

As another version, of 'pork barrelling' ?

------ >



Ben Shapiro: This is TOTALLY insane!

17 min
December 6th, 2025

https://old.bitchute.com/video/zFKNYqo10zY/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKNYqo10zY



Quote:

'The Ben Shapiro Show' host Ben Shapiro discusses President Donald Trump's immigration pause on Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Somalia and 15 other nations on 'The Brian Kilmeade Show.'

This is why when they have insisted in the past that they are experts ... I leave them be.
Give them a very wide berth.

There's exploratory science for the good of all and then there's those guys, you wrote about...someones kid...getting a free ride for dumb poo at the expense of others.

Most of em start out that way unless you a suck alot of fecal matter of flaccid lose skin first...which in itself is quite  a disturbing trend of learning in mans modern venues....

No such affiliate or associate under any conceived circumstance to mine self. what so ever.
Ever.

They had 2 choices once they realized how putridly easy it was to obtain tax payer money ...

abuse it

or

help fix it.


This country is run like the whole thing is a giant cullender  ..