Australia threatens to pull buckets of astronomy funding A political impasse is putting at risk Australia's participation in the ginormous Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope*, along with a slew of other major research science projects. The impasse centres on a plan to "deregulate" Australia's universities by allowing them to charge higher fees to make up for reduced …
Australia made a choice Minister for Science or Minister for government subsidised sport advertising, the ministry of "It's not lying when superstar hero athletes lie about crap products, it's acting".
That choice of course how well those ego bloated boring douche bag jock straps will stump for their favourite right wing politician and how scientists like to have stupid independent ideas about everything including which politician they will vote for.
The government of main stream media bullshit 24/7/365, whilst selling out the Australian people to the "now open for business" crowd.
To be fair. All their kids get posh private educations enabling them to go on to top-paid roles as industry 'leaders' (full sympathies to the respective industries). There is no benefit to them and theirs in public science - not enough payola for the managers in that field.
All their kids get posh private educations...
Astoundingly, even people who will suffer from the effects of this sort of legislation will buy into it. I had to explain to a coworker a few years back why he should, as a single person with no children, have some of his taxes go to the public school system. He felt that people should have to pay for their kids' education but not for anyone else's. I pointed out that there was a really good reason for him having to pay into the system: so that I don't have to be surrounded by ignoramuses. It astounds me that people who refuse at every step of the way to contribute to the social well-being of their neighbors often attempt to justify their views based on what is good for society.
My friend has a kid now. I don't think he can afford private school, though.
The longer that government stays in power the more happy I become that I left!
I was always a liberal voter but I can't believe that anyone could support what they are doing to the country.
Slashing technology/education/environment and accelerating mining/logging of old growth forests/domestic spying/religious establishment in a race to the see if they can fuck up the country for anyone who plans to live for a another 20 years.
People always leave Canada out and I'm pissed about that. Canada is in a free fall damned near as fast as either the US or UK, I'll have you know. Don't let Trudeau's gentle words fool you. I haven't seen anything from him that would lead me to believe that he isn't as neoliberal as either the US or UK. I suppose that if we managed to elect a truly socially democratic government the US would bomb the shit out of us.
Dear World
We here in Australia would like you to invest in an increasingly stupid society. We the government are doing everything we possibly can to hasten a medieval darkness in which knowledge and education are no longer available to anyone by the wealthy.
We have removed the last scintilla of imagination from Cabinet and have replaced it with cardboard. We found that we were not very good at thinking of policy for ourselves and so have subsumed the wish list of the Australian Chamber of Arseholes in Business and branded it A Way into the Future.
Although Maggie Thatcher, God rust her box is no longer alive, we pay homage to her Fuckwittist financial theories and seek to emulate them. To that end we have eradicated anything to do with research for which there is not a direct and immediate technological issue. So, CSIRO is now working out of a matchbox, the SKA should just shrivel up and die and we are trying to sell off education to the highest bidder.
Thank you for your time and here is a brief knock knock joke for you all
Knock knock
Who's there?
Garn
Garn who?
Garn get fucked.
This has been a Party Political message from the Liberal Antiparty of Australia. All names and places will have been sold or scrapped by the time you read this.
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