Australian Universities. Let's get real here.

It is increasingly boring listing to the tales of misbehaviour at Australia’s universities and everyone running to daddy in Canberra - the Commonwealth Minister for Education. The latest, as reported in The Australian:

QUT vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil has apologised for the “hurt and offence’’ caused by an anti-racism conference that ridiculed “Dutton’s Jew”, as another cartoon emerged from the symposium that advocated punching “a racist” in the neck.

and

Education Minister Jason Clare has been forced to intervene in the growing row over the slate of anti-Israel activists leading the symposium, and a Labor-led parliamentary inquiry on campus anti-Semitism is considering calling QUT leadership to testify publicly.

Boring.

Yes. The Commonwealth is a major funder of Australian universities. But it does not own the universities or control their governance. That privelege falls to the State Governments.

In the case of the Queensland University of Technology, that would fall to the piss weak David Frank Crisafulli, Premier of Queensland:

You see, QUT exists and operates under the Queensland University of Technology Act 1998, an act of the Queensland Parliament. An act that can be easily modified by the Queensland goverment.

Section 5 of this Act describes what is the purpose of QUT, the first 3 items being:

(a) to provide education at university standard; and

(b) to provide facilities for, and encourage, study and research; and

(c) to encourage the advancement and development of knowledge, and its application to government, industry, commerce and the community;

Suffice to say, to engage in the disgusting conduct described is not in Section 5.

I am waiting for someone, anyone, to ask Premier Crisafulli and his education minister John-Paul Langbroek what THEY are going to do about what happened at QUT.

Much as I await NSW Premier Chris Minns and his education minister Pru Car their thoughts on what will be the next guaranteed disgraceful incident that occurs at Sydney University.

You know, given that the University of Sydney exists and operates under the University of Sydney Act 1989. An act of the NSW (not Commonwealth) Parliament.

Accountability is a bitch. Especially when you are held to account.