If you find yourself wondering, wait, what, why are we funding Australian universities? You are likely not alone.
Apparently, the U.S. government has been sending $6oo million/yr to universities in Australia to subsidize various college research programs. The Trump administration has told Australia the funding will likely end.
The Australian university system is in a state of panic, telling their government to declare a “state of emergency”.
One particular quote from within the Sky News article below seemingly encapsulates the mindset of the situation in the land down under:
AUSTRALIA […] Last week after it was revealed the universities had been asked to justify their funding, the National Tertiary Education Union called on the government to “guarantee Australian researchers would be protected”.
“The federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms,” NTEU president Alison Barnes said. (Full Article)
One would think the NTEU would be happy for an enhanced opportunity for “independent research.”
Alas, it appears Mr/Ms Alison Barnes doesn’t quite understand the nature of the word “independent” within the relationship. A little funny.
Alison …
At least there’s not a hyphen in there somewhere. Maybe Alison can go find a real job now where Australians are paying.
As a barista.
Hyphenated last names, pronouns in bio, Crayola colored hair, septum piercings, and lots of tattoos. All warning signs, some more glaring then others, but added together indicate the degree of lunacy you are likely dealing with.
A sure sign of child molestation in her past. The clownish decor is coverup and compensation for the damage.
Greg, That is absolutely fascinating…I never thought of that…but it makes total sense.
Send them all to Madagascar. IYKYK
“King Charles” latest invitation for PDJT to join us to the Commonwealth (no obligation, of course – ha) takes on a new meaning with this revelation from Australia. It seems we were paying for everything, everywhere…
Then what? Britain pays for US universities?
Our future generations(?) are paying for everything, everywhere with IOUs written by people who hate us now..
Learn to code…
…US provides funding to Australian universities: Not foreign interference
…US stops funding to Australian universities: Foreign interference
Yeah I noticed that too.
Its liberal parseltongue.
Congrats you know speak democrat!
When you are from the land down under, everything is one way. Up.
wow.. what part do they not understand.. THE MONEY TREE HAS DIED .. Geez what wrong with these freeloaders ..
Well, now, they’re down under.
Question: who are the worst free loaders in the British Commonwealth, Canadians or Aussies?
Answer: New Zealanders, by far!
Bludgers using a British Commonwealth term.
I gots me kiwi roots here…that was not nice.
I immigrated to the US from Australia on a New Zealand passport. Grew up on Buckland Road in Matamata County 9 miles from Matamata opposite where they made the dopey teen movie ‘Lord Of The Ring(worm)s’ in Waikato province. Went to Presbyterian Church under Reverend Ian Grant in those days and graduated from Matamata Highschool which calls itself a college even though it obviously isn’t. Town is on provincial (blue shield as opposed to national red shield) state highway 24 although in those days it was designated a county road, and provincial state highway 27. The national food staple is ‘Watties’ baked beans on toast. (It must be Watties) and people generally preferred Marmite over Vegemite and it was a sheep farm with a shearing barn called a ‘shed’ and my Daddy (called ‘Dad’) fenced the farm using 7 wires (barb, plain, barb, plain, plain plain plain) and 5 1 inch by 1 1/2 inch battens 2 feet apart between half round posts. And lots of people drove Falcons (Ford) and Kingswoods (General Motors ‘Holden’) and we drove on the wrong side of the road. I renounced my NZ citizenship in the NZ embassy in Washington DC. And from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, having been to Canada, New Zealanders are the worst freeloaders in the British Commonwealth. By far!
Oh,and the USA is the greatest country on the whole damned planet.
Yep🇺🇲
The Five Eyes has to pay their off-shore “researchers” somehow since the very premise is illegal! So the Dems concoct another NGO Matrix segment to transfer money and use Aussie students to track the political targets! Dems never give your money for nothing; they always get “something”!
Maybe Australia should become the 52nd state. Then they could keep their ‘independence ‘.
Here are the 26 Republicans who voted against codifying the foreign spending cuts.
Everyone of them needs to go.
https://gellerreport.com/2025/03/here-are-the-26-republicans-that-just-voted-against-codifying-doge-foreign-aid-spending-cuts-into-law.html/
I believe Liz Heney was already primaries long before doge. WHY IS SHE ON THIS LIST?
Cheney
Kinzinger (very puffy-faced in a news clip I saw yesterday and a bit rough looking) cannot be on this list.
The list with her name in it is not “the” list of 26.
you have to scroll down to see the 26 rino senators.
it is a bit confusing.
Lindsey, McConnell, Murkowski and Collins says it all.
Let’s not forget Thune-our leader.
Her too!
Right!
Liz Heinie
Thank you, this needs constantly spreading on social media
Giminez and Salazar are the worst Republican’ts in the Country.
It is so much easier to list those we should keep,..frankly I do not feel confident of any of them, as all are utterly dependent on the leadership, for unlimited campaign funds, to get reelected.
Now, its possible if we could depose the RINO Leadership in both Houses, and replace with MAGA, that some would be salvageable, and WE would then control those unlimited campaign funds,..and hence be able to influence votes on confirmations, appropriations, etc
What is lost on all of the GOP-fraudsters, Dutch, is all they have to do to win is be pro-Trump. He’ll do a couple of Rallys in their state, send out a full-throated endorsement, mention their name “a couple of 13-14 times” in a presser…and, viola, it’s over…election won! (See Ron DeSantis in 2018 for an example, and now Byron Donalds.)
The Senate list makes sense, but the House Reps, is an old list.
That needs correction.
The linked website Geller has some old stuff at top, but I beleieve the current list is there if you scroll down.
Yes. The Senate list appears to be correct. The House list may be from a previous story, and should not appear on that page.
Uncle Sugar has been very generous spreading dollars around the world that do not benefit American citizens.
The initial Cloward and Piven strategy was not working fast enough. So what to do? Expand the handouts to the rest of the world.
Serious thought…the forgotten men and women are pretty skilled at surviving financial and government induced collapses…at least of our kitchen table economies…we have to make sure they don’t collapse the national and global economy, you know, to teach us a lesson. Or change the currency for America.
I hate to say it, since my family has multi generations of veterans in US service, including the ultimate sacrifice, but more often than not, American money,power,economics, political power etc was used in the service of evil, like the betrayal of Rhodesia. One amongst many, but unfortunately a sterling example. And look what it has become.
Highly recommended book. In fact you will understand that the Cold War was a complete lie and Hegelian Dialectics. I suggest reading Douglas Reed’s “Battle For Rhodesia” before this for a better grasp of things.
“Within Britain itself, we were landed with a socialist government hell-bent on appeasing the cult of Marxist Leninism, at the expense of the old traditional values of the British Empire” Ian Smith
The Australians became the cheese eating surrender monkeys down under when they willing turned in all their guns without a peep! Now they get upset at a loss of free American dollars from the unknowing American tax payers???!!! No wonder they lost their guns makes sense now, misplaced priorities!!! “$6oo million/yr to universities in Australia to subsidize various college research programs.” Good grief will Congressional spending waste ever be totally uncovered???? My guess this $600 million/year have been given to Australia for years! Some K Street lobbyist wrote this into a spending bill which was passed having never been read!!! JMO
The smart folks gave up rusted single shot rifles and shotguns. There are a few PewPews left out in the wild there in Oz.
Hogwash.
Australians did not “willingly turn in all their guns.” After the one-time voluntary gun surrender of 1996, ownership has been steadily increasing. It has apparently grown so well that it has set he anti-gun lobby’s “hair on fire.”
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australias-gun-ownership-scorecard-a-growing-problem-in-need-of-reform/
While gun ownership is heavily regulated, Aussies still own over 4M guns, with license holders owning an average of 4 weapons each. The federal govt. only regulates the importation of firearms; each state regulates the licensing and ownership therein.
There were some pretty robust anti-covid lockdowns down under, we saw “Kettling” method used by Police, which was later successfully defeated in Canada,…
People were actually shot with rubber bullets in Australia, during their protests,…
Use caution in painting with a broad brush, as their are Nationalist Populist movements in a great many Countries, virtually every one run by Globullusts, and each is at its own stage of evolution.
Perhaps because Oz and New Zealand are isolated from Europe and U.S. they are farther behind,…?
Not to mention the National Party in Australia has a political alignment with the Liberal Party against the Labor Party. Talk about Ninos!
This is surprising. An American who does know some accurate facts. A big thumbs up for you.
Cheers, cobber! …I had to make sure what’s fair dinkum…..
I did some research before commenting because I remembered a few CTH commenters debating that issue a few years ago in these same pages. 😎
Do you know that if they use the word ‘but’ they will put it at the end of a sentence but. Or they used to.
And it’s cheers MATE. Cobber is more English.And ‘mate’ is not (supposed to be) gay as in spouse.
My understanding is that once it’s in the Continuing Resolution it never comes out until a budget is adopted. We haven’t had a budget is a very long time.
US $600 million/year to boot.
In Australia privately owned cannons and machine guns have always been banned. You now need a permit to have a semi auto or pistol , and all fire-arms must be registered and stored in a gun safe. Other than that you are not restricted on number of fire-arms. ….. Guns are NOT banned in Australia. I have nine. Most houses have several. …… Americans in general know nothing about History or International affairs. ……. Also Putin has been very successful in brain washing them. Also note that Australia has supported the USA in every war it has been in since the First World War.
Unbelievable…
How come funding for “collaborative research” only goes one way: $$ from the US to Australia?? Independent collaboration is an oxymoron!
We want them to buy our submarines + allow more US troops there would be my guess.
To be fair, Australia does some incredible medical and scientific reseaech. It shouldnt be doing it with US taxpayer money.
Auusies are taxed into orbit for endless entitlement peograms and green subsidies….they should put that money to better use instead being leveraged by the US state department.
And yes Im Aussie.
As I read the article the US request was to “justify” the money spent. I don’t think that ought to be considered unreasonable to anyone not a grifter.
“The federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms,” NTEU president Alison Barnes said.
Ha, Ha, Ha,
How about that. If we stop funding it, they can do what they want. Screw one of the 5 eyes that have been screwing us. I have a friend that travels there a lot for work and he said over the last 30 years the country has been over taken by Asians. Boy do we miss the days of the Aussie Blondies and Crocodile Dundee. Great movies came from there.
They totally lost my respect over Covid.
Nor, does he understands ‘foreign interference’.
Apparently, handing out money is normal, stopping the free money is interference. I think I ‘ll try that with the customers in my small business. In fact, you who read this are interfering with me by not giving me money.
US to Australia: shear more sheep.
Sheep? Sheering time…
“Though you live beyond your means…your daughters wear no crinolines….”
… and shear them in Australia, not the USA!
Click go the shears boys, click, click, click
Why are we funding a supposedly 1st world country’s colleges? We shouldn’t be sending money to any foreign university, but Australians have a standard of living higher than the average American.
Under Biden.
Ms. Alison should call Mr. Xi to see if China has an extra 600 million laying around he could help out with.
Educated idiots!
Anywhere you see the Union Jack in the corner of a flag you can be assured that The Crown expects handouts.
Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
Don’t know that Hawaii is providing any handouts, but who knows?
The flag came before the US state. Captain George Vancouver of Great Britian presented the flag to King Kamehameha in 1794. Whaling and shipping made Hawaii an ideal location for trade.
The giant grift is over. It doesn’t pay to be a politician anymore.
This is utterly disgusting! All these Socialist countries bad mouthing us and WE PAY for their meds, education, and freakin pensions! Thank God for Trump!
Last week after it was revealed the universities had been asked to justify their funding, the National Tertiary Education Union called on the government to “guarantee Australian researchers would be protected”.
I have spent some time in scientific research, and the structure that surrounds the universities that have in depth science programs. One constant among facilities is that the head scientists spend very little, if any time doing research. The bulk of their time is spent chasing down and begging for money. If they’re not out begging for money then they are taking undergraduate results and trying to put together something that can be published. You publish or you die in that business, and if you’re not publishing papers you’re begging for money. Within that context it is easy to see how there is utter panic over the thought of one of the life lines being cut. They are so immersed in their world that they haven’t even bothered to appreciate where the money comes from. No need to panic, though. All that’s needed is for the Aussie government to step up and take care of their own. Unless, of course, there are other things going on that the US government doesn’t want its citizens to know about, so the work is being done “offshore.” (Wuhan Lab ring a bell to anyone?)
Let Australia pay for their own universities. For that matter, most of the grant money the U.S. government sends to our own universities should be halted. How many of these grants ever end up doing anything more meaningful than enriching the universities and adding to the curricula vitae of the academics?
If we really need to fund “research” by academics, let the government identify an actual governmental need for the research, not the need of an academic or university to do research, and then put it out for bid in the same fashion as a contract solicitation. Then the best qualified and capable researcher can win the contract in a competitive process. And the results of the research should belong to the government, not to the academic or the university.
Excellent comment. I agree completely.
The Constitution provides for ownership of inventions by inventors. The NIH promoted ownership of inventions by universities (not inventors) and BY US GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. The Bayh-Dole Act in ~1982 started us on the downhill slide in technology leadership. Scholars are ‘befuddled’ about why we have been losing innovation and technology leadership since the ’80s.
Universities, whhich have no ‘trade secrets” and need to compete commercially, have stolen all inventions and software copyright from professors and graduate students in their prime years of creativity. most universities run their ‘Intellectual Property Licensing” operations at a loss, unless they hit on a big drug. Invention is hard. It takes long hours and intense work. Why do it, if the universities steal it?
And there is no basis for universities to steal software copyright. This stops software innovation, and limits competition. Universities are get exemptions and are authorized to teach and benefit the public, not to stifle innovation.
I remember an especially depressing case, I think at a Florida University, in which a research group worked their a**es off with unpaid overtime, etc to win a technology competition prize of a couple million$? from DARPA. The University even tried to take it from them…
NIH funds drug research. Those government employees who determine WHAT to fund, can claim inventorship. The NIH (Including FDA) have authority to select grant awardees, and approve drugs in which government employees claim co-invnetorship. pretty clever conflict of interest, eh? And iirc, the Biden administration treated the royalties received by NIH employees as private personal information not available to Congress.
To restore US innovation, the government needs to get a simple license for government use, and the inventors need to retain ownership of their inventions made under government contract. Universities should be prevented from stealing software copyright and inventions made by students and professors. (who are paid to learn, and to teach). This was the system after WWII when we had our greatest explosion of technology leadership. Universities and industry cooperated. industry employed the university grad students. professors and industry inventors went back and forth between industry and teaching. Then in the ’80s, universities decided that industry was their prey. which is a recipe for economic doom.
And at a basic level, shouldn’t any big-time drug royalties go to the state, rather than the state university?
sorry – ‘trade secrets” and NO need to compete commercially”
So when Papa D (George Papadopoulos) spoke to Australian high commissioner Alexander Downer at London bar in May 2016 as part of Russiagate it was to prevent this day in 2025 from happening.
“The federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms,” NTEU president Alison Barnes said.
This comment is aimed squarely at the communist judges polluting our courts, hoping one of the criminals agrees that this is “foreign interference” and will issue an injunction.
To anyone who is wanting to come to America. Stay where you are. We will take care of you wherever you live and you’ll not have to pay our taxes.
I’m curious how many other so call universities around the world are getting a half a billion dollars or more a year from us! They may need “WOKE” up as well??
Here is only one of them: U.S. FUNDING OF A CANADIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY—BLACK BUDGET OPERATIONS OR SYSTEMIC FRAUD?
Lord, look at just WHY we are $37 trillion bucks in debt!!!
Funding every program and nation under Heaven…
Remember what Australia’s installed globalist government did to its citizens during the manufactured fake pandemic? Keep these data points in mind so you know who we are dealing with prior to formulating thoughts in your head. If you werent paying attention during the 2020 hoax, I suggest you get educated with truth asap.
All The Wrong Moves – Western Australia Triggers Full Society Lockdown for All Unvaccinated Citizens, Harshest Measures in All of Nation
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/13/all-the-wrong-moves-western-australia-triggers-full-society-lockdown-for-all-unvaccinated-citizens-harshest-measures-in-all-of-nation/
Ty for the reminder.
Two thumbs up.
Let’s add up what we sent them in the way of $$ and then send them a bill.
F Australia. They beat thwir own citizens during Covid lies
Interfering with how we spend our own money?
This giving away of our money has to stop.
foreign interference? it’s not interference. they can go ahead and do their research. And, independent my ass, we’ve been paying it.
The Aussie outrage is hilarious. I was unaware of the funding, and I am happy to deprive the anti-Trump stooges of any and all largesse from America.
Sundance has always talked a lot about the pretenders vs the non-pretenders, so it is sweet as maple syrup to see reality bringing the pretenders all over the G7/EU/WEF/DAVOS world to their knees!
It’s absolutely hilarious that the NTEU’s Alison Barnes considers the ending of American funding of Australian universities to be “…the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference…”
So, um, Alison, it’s the NTEU’s position is that when an American President stops giving free money to Australia, THAT’S interfering in Australian internal affairs?
The pretenders in the European Union are also getting the message, as CNN announced today that the EU is delaying retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. Apparently, some non-pretender among the globalist bureaucrat cartel figured out that a paltry 28 billion in Euro-tariffs on things like American whiskey and motorboats isn’t going to win a trade war with America when the U.S. yearly trade deficit with Europe is a quarter trillion dollars!
While we’re on the subject of pretending, I wonder how Chrystia Freeland’s plan to form a nuclear alliance between Canada and Denmark to intimidate the U.S. into scrapping its new tariffs is working out?
All the money being raped from our country and given to others, when I sit back and close my eyes and imagine what America would be like if only our politicians cared about We the People like they do other parts of the world.
All this ‘foreign aid’ has been given in order for our politicians to grift a large portion of the money sent, back to themselves.
Well, no. Not such a large portion, they just dip their beak, …you know “10% for the Big Guy”; thats why the total is $37 Trillion and counting,…after all 535 in Congress, if they collectively get 10% of the $350 Billion given to Uktaine, ..thats $35 Billion, divided by 535, well my calculator on my phone won’t do billions, and I am too tired to do it longhand, but you get the idea, lol.
For a hint of what it would look like, look at the EU; instead of failing infrastructure, great roads, bridges, etc.
Retire with full pensions at 60,…a fully funded SS system, and free and decent healthcare, full
employment,…
Reverse the exfiltration of wealth, which has really been an exfiltration of middle class lifestyles, …
Yes , I can see that in my mind, I am also thinking of the homeless Vets on the street…the 20 service members who took their lives today and the 20 who will take their lives tomorrow and so on…🖖🏻
It makes you sick, doesn’t it. I’m glad I have lived long enough to hopefully see this come to an end. Years ago I was reading the US was giving money to 110 countries, sure there are more by now. I always wondered how this could continue. Well, we are 36 Trillion $$ in debt and hopefully it will be stopping.
Sick doesn’t really cover my feelings, I could use many other words to describe my utter disgust at the people that We The People put in power to “Represent” us.
There needs to be a reckoning and I don’t mean trials and convictions or prison time in some swanky Fed hole somewhere.
Only We the People can fix this….🇺🇲
Change the language, change the world.
Leftist interpretation of “independent”: No accountability nor results required.
The Austrailian socialists are running out of capitalist money.
Shoot the lock off the strongbox, Australia! Pay for your own stuff for once.
The more US taxpayers’ money that is stolen from us and handed out like candy to everyone on the planet, the more real the fear of US impending bankruptcy.
Before I realized how vast the theft of our nation is, it was very hard to comprehend that it was even possible for the US to ever go bankrupt.
Honestly, the guilty US leaders must be imprisoned for this treachery. No one is this incompetent; they did this on purpose.
I’m beginning to wonder if ANY nation is actually self-sufficient.
Hmm, Russia,Saudi Arabia,..both Nationalist and oil rich..
You don’t think that DOGE will find that we have sent any of these countries wads of money for some ridiculous reason?
Lol…. You want to put them in a cozy federal prison at what cost for each person?
They need to hang, all of them….
I think that putting criminals in prison for decades is inhumane to the criminal and an unfair financial burden to taxpayers.
I think that capital punishment is the only solution for lifelong predators. And that goes double for corrupt law enforcement/ judges /politicians, as they have betrayed the very people who gave them power to serve and protect us.
But most Americans have no stomach for capital punishment anymore.
Anyway, not until it’s THEIR child who kidnapped, raped, or killed.
Americans have been shielded from reality for decades by corrupt socialist media.
We are getting a long-needed reality check right now.
Maybe Americans will toughen up and realize that nothing will stop a predator’s natural inclination to keep causing great harm to others. Death is the only cure.
I am in a state of shock every time I hear the US funding things we never knew about!
When ED Minister Jason Clare talks (in the article) about ‘cooperation’ and Alison Barnes talks about ‘independent research’, these statements are in conflict with the United States footing the $600 million tab! That’s neither cooperation nor independence!
BRING OUR MONEY HOME!!!
Australia’s struttin’ around like they’re kingpins of independence, but when the greenbacks dry up, they’re squawkin’ for another handout. Classic move—talk big with a polished jaw, then turn around beggin’ with a tin cup. Same old grift.
Luckily in the land down under, the tin cups are upside down.
Beloved Mr. President,
We hired you, in part, to CUT THE FAT.
Please do so. Thank you sir! 👊✝️👊
Amen, Franco!
And he shall….
Bingo!
Raise tuition or lower the instructor’s salaries. American taxpayers are done funding the world. There’s a new sheriff in town, President TRUMP.
The Liberal Cultural Marxist indoctrination using our stolen “tax” dollars was meant to destroy the patriotic spirit of the Australians.
Far more than a little. Just when you think these Globullust idiots can not display their lack of self-awareness any more, they prove you wrong.
You must continue to fund our independence, we depend on you to!
Unbelievable!
I doubt Australian culture will make it given the immigrant replacements that have been taking place for decades. It’s very sad to see cultures like the UK and Australia disappear.
How incredibly negligent our “elected representatives” in DC have been – are PDT and Elon the only people with the courage to tackle the leviathan ? And the so-called legacy media ?
To think they are the very first to try to do something about this after all these years of financially supporting the world. Democrats will rue the day they stole the election from PDJT for years if they realize what he did with the time.
We are the world,
we are the ones to make a brighter day
so let’s keep givin’
Spit! For crap sake is anyone independent of my wallet! I paid something like 11K in taxes this year for crying out loud.
So, while my wife and I have been busting our ass, sacrificing, in order that our children would graduate college, debt free, we’re funding this??? Furious!
I didn’t realize TDS level six was worldwide. That’s a real eye-opener for me. how many other countries we got hanging off Lady Liberty‘s tit that we don’t know about?
“The federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms,” NTEU president Alison Barnes said. (Full Article)
Wait, so it’s not interference when we’re giving you money. It’s only interference when we stop giving you money…..
[scratches head]