Gnads wrote on Apr 1
st, 2026 at 1:10pm:
Frank wrote on Apr 1
st, 2026 at 12:37pm:
lee wrote on Apr 1
st, 2026 at 12:22pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Apr 1
st, 2026 at 12:06pm:
But the usual "free market does it better" thinking and deregulation allowed the big 3 oil companies to strip refinment from our shores and do it all offshore, in search of greater profits.
And all that did not happen in a vacuum. government regulations on emissions, parliamentary warnings of stranded assets. And you expected the companies just live with it? You are severely limited in your thinking. But that tends to be true of you and your ilk.
An important and obvious point which nevertheless needs to be repeated for the comlletely Gretafied Sads of this world.
What drives away investment from Australia are the regulations and govenment policies they and their ilk demand.
There is no energy self-sufficiency, no domestic merchant navy, no value-added resource industry, no high tech manufacturing, no nuclear industry,
no high level skills and education sector etc, because of government regulations, policies and constraints.
Did you watch 4Corners on Monday night regarding the mess our Universities are in?
The Big 4 consulting firms all infiltrating boards & jobs.
KPMG
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
Price Waterhouse Coopers
and a couple of similar operating smaller Australian consultancies.
Truly scandalous.
The same as all these Insurance Co.s, Banks & Govt entities bringing in the same consultants to push dodgy practices -
PwC Australia was found to have infiltrated the ATO & Treasury.
I dont need the ABC to tell me just how *ucked universities are.
VCs (like most academics) are heard animals, always copying each other. To appear to earn gheir $1million + salaries they introduce reviews and restructures that are carried out by consultants who have nk idea about higher education. The reviews znd restructures are bitterly resisted by the unions who would like things to be as they were in the Soviet Union, only for much higher pay. They certainly talk and think like it's 1952.
Thd VC is in place for 2 terms and ckme the ne VC, a new estructure and review. And since no VC has any previous expetience in running anything biggef than a facjkty or a research institute, the restructure is basd on .... wait for it.... expert advice given by international business consultancy firms.
So a bloke on $1 millon + hires some 'expert' accounts for millions more to telll him how to run the joint on his milion dollar salary.
Who pays? International student fees. Result? Standards down the shitter because most international students are severly sub-standard with limited ability for self-directed higher learning and deficient English.
Local students are severly affected when they need to work with international students who do not have sufficent English and educational grounding.
How did we get here?? Government regulatory settings and funding policies.
The Blairite/Gillardiste idiocy of '40 % of schol jeavers should go to uni' without the commensurate funding from local sources (govenment + students) means that universities are flooded with sub-par international students who pay big bucks - for eventual permanent migration outcome.
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