The federal government must step into this disgrace, at The Australian:
A student activist facing expulsion from the University of Queensland is being threatened with criminal prosecution over his handling of documents relating to the institution’s public response to anti-Beijing protests on campus.
Drew Pavlou faces a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday following his protests and social media posts criticising UQ’s ties with Chinese government institutions and of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s record on human rights.
The 20-year-old philosophy student, who organised a campus protest last July in support of Hong Kong’s independence movement, received a letter from UQ lawyers last week accusing him of contempt of court over his intended use of internal emails in his defence at the disciplinary hearing. The emails are understood to have been provided by UQ under subpoena, brought by Mr Pavlou, in a separate court action he took against China’s consul-general in Brisbane, Xu Jie, after the diplomat issued a statement condemning the protests as “anti-China separatist activities”.
Which resulted in death threats to the student.
This is pure and simple “lawfare”. The kind of misuse of the system against itself perfected by the CCP and now deployed by UQ, its corrupted Australian university offshoot.
This behaviour is an outrageous violation of an Australian citizen’s free speech, egged on, and directed by, CCP agents of influence and the dollars they channel via the international student trade.
The federal government should pull UQ funding until it:
- clears out China-corrupted management;
- reduces its dependence on Chinese international students;
- removes the Confucious Institute from campus,
- and apologises plus makes reparation to Mr Pavlou.
UQ is operating out on some autocratic limb that is in complete violation with community standards, intellectual principle, democractic rights and national interest policy.
Rein it in.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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Incredible
Combine this with Murdoch university threatening to sue the whistleblower
They all need to be nationalised and cleaned out completely
Nationalised? I thought they were preparing for an IPO.
Hahaha ….. though I shouldn’t scoff at something that is certainly not implausible …. the pr!cks will have considered it I am sure…… as well as the future acceptance of the take-over offer from Wuhan Degrees Pty Ltd.
Vile stuff. No idea why it is being tolerated by the Australian public.
House prices. Everything in Australia can be explained by house prices.
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Disgusting a citizen is being treated like this by UQ, just vile and repulsive.
Australian researchers say Wuflu mos likely created in a lab:
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/austrian-study-finds-sign-human-intervention-covid-19
The various media shilling for the CCP, including progressive rags, are praying that there’s no fire with this smoke. It’ll put them in a tricky spot.
I hope Nikolai Petrovsky has gone into hiding…..
The CCP are going let there be an investigation into the virus, the findings will show that it was man made, then they’ll try to pin it on the US military/CIA/Mossad.
They’ll claim the won the war by stopping the spread in China. The fact the US received blowback from their own virus will show how inferior the US is to China.
@zero hedge, is that Austrian or Australian study. I know the countries sound similar but bit of a different location?
UQ has been run like a sovereign state for decades now, administered by glorified middle managers whose mediocrity is only matched by their autocratic tendencies. But this is all enabled by State legislation and federal funding agreements which lets them get away with it, They should have their Community Infrastructure Delegation revoked, and their accreditation suspended pending a review.
I’m surprised a silk hasn’t stepped in for him pro bono
From memory one did step up, pro-bono.
EDIT: Yep, Tony Morris, QC, was the guy.
Who would want to be on Fascist China’s hit list?
This just shows how dangerous it is to allow Chinese infiltration of our University Campuses other than being students to come here to learn and not as a back door way of entering Australia as a permanent resident.
He should ask UQ to produce copies of the emails. Nothing would happen to him even if found guilty of the contempt. It goes nowhere.
The death threats on the other hand are serious crimes and should be investigated by the police
and immediately expel from the foreign interference taskforce Peter Hoi as representative for the university sector
Hoi has probably got the nod & wink from the Chuck’s government. It’s the money don’t you know.
made me think it’s prob a bit like Carrie Lam overseeing HK, even if PH disagrees at a fundamental level, he has his orders and he better damn well do what’s he’s told.