Imagine the delight of the legal fraternity and the broader community to discover that the Australian Capital Territory’s former Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, having been forced out of his post in disgrace following his ignominious role the aborted and absurd Brittany Higgins rape trial, has turned up as a law lecturer at the University of Canberra. (Real name, Canberra College of Advanced Education).
Guess what he is teaching? Evidence!
Source, The Australian, 6 March 2024, paywalled.
Is this some sort of weird joke at the expense of the students? Of the alumni? Of the taxpayer, sadly still paying the man’s income?
Why on earth do they do it, you may well ask?
Sadly, having the likes of Shane Drumgold join the staff of one of our universities is not remotely unusual. And it isn’t new, either. Though it was much rarer back in the day than now. Once, it order to be a university professor, you had to have some sort of academic base, a proven record of scholarship and good teaching skills. They called it “track record”. I knew the system. I was there. We all had to do the hard yards, make our marks, publish, and publish again.
Universities have become retirement homes for failed public servants. And not just universities. The TCW (The Conservative Woman), via Angus Dalgleish, has penned ana article titled:
For services to wrecking Britain, the covid conmen landing top jobs.
Three of Britain’s heavy Covid hitters, Patrick Vallance, Jeremy Farrar and Jonathan Van-Tam, “Sirs” all, have landed well after their inevitable departures from their miserable, evil acts committed when (briefly) handed Covid power. Their gigs are not in universities. They are, respectively, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Moderna and the World Health Organisation. And they say the ruling elites aren’t well organised. The Covid cartel, in particular, is heavily integrated and provides structured career progression for its most faithful servants.
Dalgleish notes:
All three have been honoured and rewarded (with several other government ‘science’ advisers) for their great contributions to mismanaging (if not manipulating) the pandemic, wrecking the British economy and public health possibly for generations and leaving the country burdened with some three trillion pounds of debt and rising.
This is despite the fact that we have detailed knowledge of the dreadful decision-making and dire influence on policy that they all had on lockdowns and the condition of exit, the minimally trialled, novel technology ‘vaccines’ for which Farrar was assiduously raising government money (specifically for CEPI’s Covid-19 vaccine plan as reported in these pages). It’s in the public domain, too, that Farrar was caught out in a lie when he said humans had no immunity to Covid-19 when he knew they had. Also in the public domain is the questionable role both Vallance and Farrar played on the Vaccine Taskforce in securing Pfizer’s $5.6billion vaccine contract.
So why, you might ask, would any self-respecting outfit want to hire such people, who are either extremely incompetent or liars? Is it because these organisations are not self-respecting and know only too well these men are happy to be pawns for richer rewards? And because their insider government knowledge, contacts and influence is far more useful than their scientific or medical prowess and good judgment?
The destinations here are a think tank, a Big Pharma corporation and a global public health behemoth controlled by China and Bill Gates. Now, we are getting warm, in terms of motives. In case you are wondering why on earth universities would seem to employ non-academics to academic jobs, there are hints here. The employing institutions, including the think tanks, the NGOs and the global bureaucracies, as well as the universities, are NOT self-respecting organisations. And they have all merged into a globalist, progressivist blob.
In the case of universities, they typically already employ over half of their overall staff numbers in non-academic positions. In things like marketing and HR. They are interested in “fit”, of course, like all modern organisations. They don’t want troublemakers, or right-of centre ideologues, or the anti-woke, or Covid (or other) dissidents.
But they want more than this. They want big names, whatever the academic pedigree. They want people who will make them money. Through connections to government and other funders. The modern university is not a community of scholars, of truth-seekers. They want money-makers. Funding rain-makers. They only want the highly networked. And those networked with the right people.
Earlier generation examples - and, if politicians, they were mostly Labor men – were Bob Carr and Rob Hulls. Carr, a record breaking (in the sense of length of tenure, if nothing else) NSW Premier and, briefly and unelected, Senator and Foreign Minister, has ended up at professor level and holding very senior roles at the University of Technology Sydney. A “Dawkins university”, that is a former institute of technology made into a university overnight in the 1980s by Carr’s Labor mate in Canberra. From his university base, Carr has done most of his best work sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party and spitting out vitriol on social media.
Hulls is a former Victorian Attorney General who is now heading up an institute for “innovative justice” at RMIT University. Yes, yet another former institute of technology. (Yes, RMIT did give me a job too, once). Hulls did more than most to create in his State a feminist, me-too, man-hunting junta of mediocre jurists, from the top down. Hulls’ “reforms” made Daniel Andrews and VicPol possible. The State that employed Anne Ferguson and Christine Nixon. And Kerri Judd. That created a police force often referred to as Ashton’s Circus. That gave us Lawyer X.
Both these political practitioners, one a do-nothing failure and the other a dangerous evil-doer, were welcomed with open arms by our institutions of “higher learning” – both words are now inaccurate, let alone when used together – which says much about the current objectives and positioning of the universities.
Closer to the current day, former Victorian lock-downer and vaccine bully-in-chief, Bretton Sutton, got himself a sinecure at the CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). Aka Australia’s “National science agency”. Welcoming a man who was decidedly unscientific during the plandemic, on a daily basis. He was high profile, of course. One of the preferred class.
The former, undistinguished Coalition Attorney General and loyal leftist, George Brandis, is now a professor at my alma mater, The Australian National University.
George Brandis joined ANU in June 2022 as a Professor in the Practice of National Security, Policy and Law, in a joint appointment with the National Security College and the ANU College of Law.
https://nsc.crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/george-brandis
Brandis’s role in the Coalition’s non-passage of reforms to the infamous section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 – which is still on the books and crunches freedom of speech, now a more precious resource than ever – was as infamous as the legislation itself. Tony Abbott took all of the blame for that. Well done, Professor Brandis!
Next, and perhaps most egregiously of all, we have Greg Hunt, now an honorary professor at The Parkville Asylum (aka the University of Melbourne).
Yes, the position is honorary. But these positions are not with psychic reward and other potential benefits as well. And he only has this position because the University expects something in return. And the access that Hunt will provide to the international public health policy cartel – remember that Hunt once worked for McKinsey and for the World Economic Forum – will more than pay for the appointment.
On his appointment, in early 2023, Professor the Hon Greg Hunt – he clearly likes titles – called for “a new vaccine push”.
Working for a Government that led the world in measures simultaneously ludicrous and extreme, indeed, leading its Covid plandemic push, this is an astonishing statement.
As the number of excess deaths clearly associated with feral vaccines ramped up, as the ousting from employment for those refusing the jab continued, as clear evidence came to light that lockdowns caused irreparable harm across society, as it became crystal clear that alternate Covid treatments that government had blocked were highly effective and not dangerous, and as more and more peer reviewed studies showing massive vaccine harms emerged globally, all that the newly created Professor could say was – we need a new vaccine push. Such a statement, as well as the new position itself, merely give comfort to the vaccine manufacturers that are now facing global condemnation and multiple legal actions for compensation in the face of lethal harms they have been inflicting, with the help of the Covid State.
Many believe these corporations to be criminals whose executives should be in prison. Of course, it was actions by institutions like the Food and Drug Administration in the USA and the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia, the latter which reported to Hunt, that allowed the vaccines in without proper clinical trials and all-but-forced everyone to take them, based on information provided by the Hunts of the world that turned out to be lies.
And a prestigious Australian university gave this guy an important job.
At worst, all of these failed public servants are being rewarded for malfeasance. At best, they are provided soft landings after inglorious previous job performances. It is a pretty good wicket, jolly good work if you can get it, paid for by the taxpayer or, more chillingly, paid for by corporate funders or NGOs expecting some pay-back for their cash. Think the global mega-funder and Jeffrey Epstein buddy, Bill Gates. And look at the record of Australian (and other) academics parroting Government medical and other narratives. And look at the massively networked elite class, whose members simply bounce around from one sector to the next.
They talk about crony capitalism. This is crony post-capitalism. Crony everything. Sick-making insider trading by all concerned. A neat circle. The taxpayer pays for the universities. Governments and corporates provide research funding for “projects” that serve corporate objectives and provide career enhancement for academics. Corporates than have evidence of “independent” research for them to successfully lobby those same governments for favourable policies that further advance their interests.
Some of this activity is covered in a book called Rigged, (an update of an earlier book called Game of Mates) by Cameron Murray and Paul Frijters:
Every hour you work, thirty minutes of it goes to line the Mates' pockets rather than your own. Mates in big corporations, industry groups, government departments, the halls of parliament and the media skew the system to suit each other. Corporations dodge taxes, so you pay more. You pay more for your house and higher interest rates on your mortgage, more for your medicines and transport, and more for your children's education and insurance, because the Mates take a cut.
Rigged uncovers the pattern of political favours, grey gifts and information-sharing that has been allowed to build up over two decades. Drawing on extensive economic research, it exposes the Game of Mates as nothing less than cronyism on a grand scale across Australia and how we have fallen behind other countries in combating it.
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cameron-K.-Murray-and-Paul-Frijters-Rigged-9781761067662
They provide much food for thought.
Bad as the cronyism is, there are far more sinister elements in play here, with consequences not just for taxpayers’ wallets but for our very freedom as well. As I say, good work if you can get it. Some, though, might just call it corrupt. A scam.
Part of this sinister element is that universities are not, these days, just retirement homes for failed public servants. They are now doing bad things, harming us, on our dime. Take the aforementioned RMIT University. They are now in the business, via the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s joint venture, of seeking to shut down debate through the fact checking industrial complex. Of taking sides in contentious public policy debates. Soft censorship, perhaps, when compared to outright silencing, but outrageous nonetheless.
RMIT FactLab is a fact-checking organisation and research hub dedicated to fact checking viral misinformation and disinformation and building critical awareness of the real-world harm that they can cause.
With false and misleading information on the rise worldwide, RMIT FactLab not only tackles harmful information directly but helps develop tools and strategies to combat its viral spread. This includes providing education and training, and conducting original research into the digital information ecosystem.
https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/schools-colleges/media-and-communication/industry/factlab
Countering “viral misinformation and disinformation? Who decides what the truth is or which opinions are more correct? We at RMIT do! Fact checking is a scam. A make-work scheme for otherwise unemployable progressives. And once the fact checking occurs, Google does the rest. Here is where the silencing comes it. The fact checking simply provides an alibi for the platform companies.
Not only do universities use fact checking to deny and discredit – that is their purpose – the truths told by others. But they make up their own b.s. in the service of the tyrannical state. We saw during Covid, time and time again, professors wheeled out by the Government and the aggressively pro-vaxx legacy media to support the official narrative. To give it a veneer of respectability. They did no such thing, as it happens. It merely showed them to be Covid shysters, recirculating swill.
And they weren’t always even medical scientists doing this. Two I knew personally. One was my former boss at RMIT, who offered embarrassingly feeble assertions tarted up to look like arguments. The other a conservative academic who got it horribly wrong. And these from highly paid “scholars” from our academy. Real academics, alas. I “fact checked” them in turn, myself, back in the Covid days.
https://politicom.com.au/academics-without-but-plenty-of-cash/
https://politicom.com.au/vitriol-humiliation-replace-mateship/
And God help us all, there is yet another “review” of our universities coming soon to a theatre near you. For policy theatre it is.
Don’t expect anything remotely worthwhile to come of this. It will not. “Major shakeup”? Nope. Nothing that will change the core dynamics of our corrupt universities model will change. Universities will say they need for money, especially since Covid (ironically, given they were cheering on the lockdowns and the rest) has caused a massive shortfall in their Ponzi scheme reliance on international students. Everyone else will say that yet more Australians should go to university. We need far fewer university students, not more. And far fewer university sector administrators. And marketers. And money men and women. And student evaluations of lecturers. And media performance scores for academics. And lists of “experts” for media to contact. And far fewer pretend academics.
As a postscript, we recently learned of the former Covid disaster of a prime minister, Scott Morrison, is finally leaving the building. Someone, at last, gave him a job.
The former PM will leave parliament at the end of February to take on a new role as vice-chair of security firm American Global Strategies, headed by former Trump security adviser Robert O’Brien, per The Australian.
He will also become a strategic adviser to asset management firm DYNE — a role that will also be performed by former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
Mr O’Brien said Mr Morrison was “widely regarded as one of the most consequential world leaders of the last decade”.
“As our non-executive vice-chairman, (he) will bring high-level relationships and unique global insights on behalf of AGS’s clients,” he said.
So, ScoMo joins the military industrial complex. Yes, I agree, he was “consequential”, but decidedly not in the way described by his new boss.
There is a lesson here.
The push by the universities to recruit high profile non-scholars to specially created jobs shows just how far these former centres of higher learning have moved from their traditional and once highly respected roles, and just how much they have mimicked global elite institutions which have always poached former politicians and bureaucrats in order to gain “position” with the sources of money. They are simply global and globalist corporations.
More than this, the universities have become part of an integrated elite network of control.
Recent work by independent investigative journalists and analysts like Mike Benz and Whitney Webb have joined the dots. And universities have been granted frontline roles. Just look at the global public health networks that have brought on board a university like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. They are just as much a part of the scene as Tony Fauci or Tedros or Jeremy Farrar. The University of Washington in Seattle is often termed “Gates University”. Formerly first-rate institutions like Harvard are now notorious.
As always, follow the money. And now, as well, follow the strategic positioning for power and influence.
Paul Collits
8 March 2024
Why employ these parasites?
Answer
“because the University expects something in return.”!!!!
So succinct
Let's not forget former politician Ms Julie Bishop : The Australian National University (ANU) Council has today unanimously voted to reappoint the Hon Julie Bishop as Chancellor for a second term for four years, commencing in 2023. Ms Bishop was appointed to the role of ANU Chancellor in August 2019, with her first term commencing on 1 January 2020 and ending on 31 December 2022.