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.
I’m gonna take stab and say, “I’m betting our money wasn’t interfering…just that we questioned its use and THAT is interfering! 🤔
Is the USA taxpayer funding everybody everywhere, all of its enemies and ”friends”? All the self-righteous scolds and harpies in the USA are getting kickbacks too. Nothing screams Uniparty like this cluster coitus that has been going on for decades. Just cut everybody off, close most of the 450 unelected agencies, fire all the black-robed busybodies. Civil forfeiture of all the stolen loot from all the players like Soros and Clinton., Gates Foundation etc. Fire most of the FBI,CIA.Let’s reset to 1776 2.0 and have the next 200 years in peace and prosperity. Deport all illegals. All those fired government employees can pick the fruit and vegetables. The recovered dollars can go toward the national debt and every taxpayer gets a rebate.No more income tax, paper ballots, voting done on election day, not weeks and months, and mail-in ballots etc. The criminals need to be breaking rocks in the hot sun for the rest of their lives. Can we just do most of the above? This one time is all we have, or will the blob consume us all?
The answer to your opening question is: Yes. The corporate government cannot solve the problem because they are the problem. They’re hoping to engage in another round of the same old fraud that has served them well for over 160 years, but no, when the music stops this time there won’t be a chair. The jig is up. The Sleepers have awakened. These three articles address their financial dilemma. And No, Virginia, there is no national debt – only unbalanced books and fraudulent charges, so stop worrying.
landofoz1.pdf
landofoz2.pdf
refundingthebeast.pdf
Ronald Reagan famously declared that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem” during his inaugural address in 1981.
Excellent summation of the rampant theft and corruption that is Washington DC 👏 .
Short answer…yes.
Apparently, Yes. The USA is looked at as having unlimited money pouring from its tax payers so they are expected to spread the wealth around the world to private and public entities and keep spreading the wealth unlimited and forever I guess.
Time to share all this ‘news’ with all the people, citizens of the USA, that send their hard earned dollars to their govt. expecting it to be used for their benefit and their country first. Time to make that the reality and get rid of the foreign aid unless it’s purely humanitarian, is openly audited and accounted for as it’s paid out and that it goes directly to helping people who are suffering. That’s it.
Historically, helping suffering people was a large role of the churches.
Notice that when THE GOVERNMENT began filling that role, the churches became diminished – even to the point of disappearing in some countries. Thus, nightclubs and mosques occupy those buildings!
Agree; however, no purely humnitarian aid until all the humanitarian needs of American citizens are take care of first.
1 Timothy 5:8 is pretty clear and I think it applies to what you are saying, “8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
America needs to take care of their own house first.
That verse refutes attempts to say Jesus was a socialist.
Charity begins at home. JDV has done his homework.
All this foreign aid given to these countries helps explain why the USA has such a huge debt and a spending problem.
yes, we are funding everything evil in the world by allowing the government to counterfeit. Money is fungible and there is no limit or end to where it’s going. but it’s not the only chance we have. Maybe it’s the only chance we have the does not include violence, but I’m not so sure we get out of this easily. The founders were in a predicament and they had to shoot a bunch of people and refused to pay tax.
ONLY WE THE PEOPLE CAN FIX THIS!!!🇺🇲
Been saying for decades that most of our taxes go to non-Americans, our enemies and other countries. in the beginning I thought I was exaggerating. However our debt started going into trillions i just knew I was right.
homer d for president 2032
The Left is the same in Australia as the US. The Universities are run by the same greedy people pushing global warming and net zero. This funding is from the US globalists buying off Australian Globalists. The USA since the 1950s has been the biggest investor in Australia. The US has the biggest spy station outside the US in Australia.
Ordinary Aussies are not a part of or aware of this.
Australia has been the 51st State of the US globalists and Wall St for years.
This.
Absolutely. You have nailed it on every point. And yes, too many of us here in Australia remain oblivious/ignorant – either from apathy, insular disinterest, or the “She’ll be right mate!” mentality.
They’re like this in every country though. That’s how they were able to do global lockdowns.
Characteristically, The Left is full of internationalists and transnational activists, globalists, and every conceivable derivative of Monty Python’s People’s Committee of Judea polysyllabically possible.
They want to institutionalize the world and govern it as a franchise exclusive to them. They are, as Alan Watt’s once mused, devoted to: “Playing endless games of I am better than you because.”
The imperial vanity, secret European cult societies and their conspiracies to preserve continuing rule and 5th Column influence did not die with the end of the Victorian Era. One of those transgenerational secret english cults currently has Chief Justice Roberts and other beltway jurists in the news.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1902750686145810716.html#google_vignette
How many DC politicians, bureaucrats and their allies with medical, science and engineering firms are getting some of that $600 million kicked back to them?
DOGE will be putting together a giant encyclopedia set with their findings of corruption within our federal government. We’re just barely scratching the surface of this. The Democrats and the media are stoking hate and resentment towards Trump and Musk for looking for government waste. They’re the ones that deserve our scorn. That $36 trillion dollar debt didn’t just show up overnight.
How is THIS considered interference. Funding, is interferance. Consider yourself weaned!
I know right? A foreign government funding your research is the foreign interference.
No doubt! If your research was any good, funding would not be an issue! Private corporations would be lined up to benefit from “your research.”
It’s literally the opposite of interference!
Interference? Having no choice in the matter, we have been funding them, and they have the audacity to say Trump is “interferring”?
DOGE is revealing what has been known for some time. Much of graduate level Humanity & Liberal Arts degrees exist solely to teach how to navigate the eros of wealth extraction by PowerPoint presentation of research proposals.
It is a popcorn machine with no viable societal application other a degree seeking a leeching livelihood. To which ideological big money enterprise has setup a skimming operation.
What else explains the proliferation of NGOs racking in these grants?
Answer: My hunch is much of that money ends up in the hands of law firms slash lobbyists and mass media consulting services.
That is the industry reaping the benefits of governmental largess and the true source on display by the uniparty bureaucratic hypocrisy.
I am a well traveled pokemon witness.
So, when the MSM shouts it’s Soros, Soros. What is the truth. It is so easy to present the big bad wolf such as none ever scratch the surface of the actual operators behind the scenes.
Soros’ true value to leftist politics is a MSM’s misdirection campaign that is easily scripted into talking points that never, ever gets to crux of the money gravy train.
The take away is DOGE and the Trump administration is engaged in a war against the political establishment that sees the effort of reeling in fraud, corruption(kickbacks) and frivolous spending; where the only knee jerk reaction on their part is to frame a narrative that DOGE is akin to stealing candy from babies instead of meeting the merits of DOGE’s findings.
And, that is how you know what winning is!
There is truth to your post, but that doesn’t make Soros a good person.
So Soros is bad, but he isn’t the ultimate bogeyman. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t lessen, or diminish his negative influence.
>What is the truth.
Funny, that’s Pontius Pilate’s line.
“The federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research “
The utter lack of self-awareness is stunning.
Push back? You going to stick a gun in America’s collective back and rob us?
I’m so sick of money-sucking other countries and grifters of our own.
Unlikely ; nothing personal but the Australians have no backbone . They let the left take away their arms .
True statement, as did the Brits.
An oxymoronic statement if ever one existed. I never subscribed to the intelligence of utopian, statist, collectivists., A.K.A. Leftists, communists, Democrats…ad nauseum.
He or she is an academic. They are utopian; logic and math are hard when you are overcome with feelings.
True dat. “Those pesky engineers and economists who tell me my idea won’t work are HURTING MY FEELINGS!”
Foreign Influence. The Aussies have grown up on welfare…which means they deserve it unchanged, forever.
Europe demands a US “backstop” in Ukraine.
Spend some time on YT watching UK and Australian news / commentary. You may be stunned by what you hear.
I’m sure I’m not the first person to think that America has done with welfare to other nations what it has done to countless souls in the USA. Create dependency and entitlement.
Me too, and Canada. It is crazy.
Well, the FSA (Free Sh-t Army) is a global phenomenon and we, the US, are its primary financial supporter………
Hence all the “magic money machines:.
That is all the printed money in excess of what the Auto Pen tells us has been printed.
Digital money goes overseas, we are left with the overprinted paper, worthless if it comes to it.
That is why Australians don’t even fight their government and banks going cashless and in turn gov. demands Aussies to go cashless. They are hooked on big gov entitlements.
This is exactly what I’ve been saying. They proved they were in control when they released covid and not a single country made a peep that a culling worse than the holocaust had occurred
Independent research? Trans kangaroo research maybe? Will lack of trans kangaroos be an ’emergency’ for Australia? For America? Why are we funding research to rich nations all over the world? It there a logical answer for that?
Their “independent” research isn’t to damned independent if the U.S. taxpayer is paying for it, and questioning how OUR tax dollars are spent is not interference.
They have other research partners ; particularly Australia-India Strategic Research program.
Australia needs to look into fraud concerning research funds in the Australian Research Council.
The (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) are the primary bodies that fund research in Australia. The ARC focuses on non-medical research and distributes over A$800 million in grants annually, while the NHMRC funds health and medical research, primarily through grant programs funded by the Medical Research Endowment Account (MREA) and the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).
Regarding fraud control, the NHMRC has established a Fraud and Corruption Control Framework aligned with the Commonwealth Fraud Control Framework.
HOWEVER, the audit of the NHMRC’s fraud control arrangements found that the agency had not implemented all necessary measures to ensure the effectiveness of grant recipients’ fraud risk controls. The NHMRC agreed to implement independent risk-based assurance mechanisms to address these issues.
The ARC has also faced scrutiny over political interference in grant approvals. In response, legislation was introduced to remove the minister’s direct approval of competitive grants, aiming to enhance the independence of the peer review process.
Both the ARC and NHMRC emphasize the importance of research integrity and compliance with the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. However, there is a call for an independent national regulator to oversee research integrity, as currently, institutions largely investigate allegations themselves, which can lead to potential conflicts of interest.
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-research-and-innovation/europe-world/international-cooperation/bilateral-cooperation-science-and-technology-agreements-non-eu-countries/australia_en
Just remember that our “research grants” also funded the Wuhan Lab to conduct gain of function on the SARS COVID too. Keep US dollars in the U.S. for a change and do our own research and keep a close eye on how it’s spent. Time to wean the world off our funding.
Pres Trump should cut off all “foreign aid”. All of it. It seems that we are supporting the communist educations of all countries around the world, including our own. They know that none of the communist movements are organic. They are the result of propaganda, being taught in schools and broadcast by the enemedia. Without the USA funding all that shit, it will go away.
No more foreign aid to anyone.
Agree ; will solve much of the graft .
That and after the initial difficulty it will improve the lot of everyone — they will do better than now if they do it on their own.
I use that perfect term as well – ENEMEDIA !
Just typing it brings a smile to my face!
The US has been the Globalist Bank for so long, the Elites look at it as their money, and any disruption to the system an ‘interference.’
😂🤣😂
ICYMI, Doug Ross has a fascinating post today about ‘she-who-shall-not-be-named’
https://directorblue.substack.com/p/top-20-mary-mccord-fun-facts
“Independent… as in inflammable,” she reasoned.
This is so dumb, it makes my head hurt.
Australia puts its own people in prison during the COVID fraud.
I remember they imprisoned aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. Two young men escaped. The Australian government hunted them down like wild dogs, using helicopters, for fleeing their RUTHLESS and FALSE imprisonment.
New Zealand was worse. Jacinda Ardern, Primate Minister, morphed into a ruthless dictator and nobody was allowed to enter NZ. Nobody was supposed to travel. It didn’t help. Lots of people in NZ got COVID. Finally, Ardern, an avowed communist from her youth, was revealed as a tyrant and fled her country ahead of the angry mob at her heels, as they pursued with blood in their eyes..
I believe she “fled” New Zealand for a highly positioned government job in Australia…
In the Australian university education system?
No she went to Harvard first. And maybe the UN. Shes a WEF stooge
What has been our return on our investment? What has this research provided the U.S.?
10% back to the grifters in the USA.
10% for the Big Guy……….
We never get a return. Look at Ukraine, everyone else that gave money to them did so as a secured loan to be paid back.
Not the Globalist Bank of the US, who uses Foreign Aid to withdraw ‘their’ money, no strings attached.
“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.”
Yeah, no. GFY.
The party in power at mo is the Labor party, which was established BY UNIONS many moons ago.
A majority of its senior members are from the unions.
This union sheila is whining loudly so that the Prime Minister (a union hack of course) has an excuse to replace that $600m grift with Australian funds.
p.s. there are all sorts of collaborative research done around the World, and costs shared. Obviously the US has been bearing the brunt of most of that cost (probably for influence gain, such as Gerbil Warmening and Tranny research).
I think our American cousins should keep their cash. They’re in enough debt without subsidising a wealthy nation like my Australia.
If they US turns off the money tap, will it force Oz to face facts and fix the suck? One can dream.
Amazing, when they are on the Dole for so long they actually think they are entitled to your money
Like ungrateful, spoiled children.
I have always referred to it as THE WELFARE MENTALITY!
THAT’S MINE!
I HAVE A RIGHT TO IT!
(Applies to all socio-economic levels.)
Here’s the thing… had Pres. Trump not been Elected, the corruption would have never been found.
$600,000,000 per annum could have been spend on AMERICAN Homeless, and VETS!
If Progressives were smart instead of trying to fight DOGE, they try to use that for the “STUDENT DEBT RELIEF”, they keep harping about. But for the Progressives it was never about AMERICAN CITIZENS… it was always about HURTING AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Tax the multiple billion dollar endowments these colleges hold to pay the 1.7 trillion dollar student debt portfolio generated by the DOE. Colleges need skin in the game.
Now you’re over the target!!!
What’s that sound?
You can already hear them screaming!
it hasn’t even happened, and already lawyers and judges are trampling each other in the rush to sue!
Student loan debt issue can be solved by bestowing loans based on ‘degree market value’. Student loans for degrees in math and the sciences=75-100% funded. Liberal arts=0-25% funded. And the gooberment is OUT of the loan business. Let the financial institutions assume the risk of loss…..
What happen to American taxpayers’ money between 2014 – 2022?
Between fiscal years 2014-2016 alone, NCI (National Cancer Institute) distributed 133 grants for cancer research projects with Australian collaborators, for a total of US $170,892,336 in extramural grants. Four of these grants went directly to Australian researchers who led the projects, for a total of US $1,348,630.
And the money going to 22 million dead social security recipients could have been going to living social security recipients.
“The federal government must push back on the Trump administration’s blatant foreign interference in our independent research”
What a laugh!
About bloody time.
To stop the funding, just prohibit Australian researchers from collaborating on US research programs.
Much easier said than done. True research, minus government corruption, does exist. Cooperation between researchers in different nations is quite common. Scientific curiosity, with its perpetual search for answers, knows no national boundary. The challenge is weeding out the corruption.
Indeed
No matter the socio-economic level –
The Welfare Mentality:
“THAT’S MINE!
I HAVE A RIGHT TO IT!”
I had been told it was very difficult to get NIH funding outside the US. Evidently I was wrong again because Fauci and Collins had lots to give to China. These sc
American taxpayers should not be forced to pay tax dollars that fund Australian Universities. Whoever decided to fund these universities at taxpayer expense needs to be charged with a crime.
Look into our National Health Institute and others – the NCI for research funds to Australian (see above “What happened to American taxpayers’ money between 2014 – 2022?
Between fiscal years 2014-2016 alone, NCI (National Cancer Institute) distributed 133 grants for cancer research projects with Australian collaborators, for a total of US $170,892,336 in extramural grants. Four of these grants went directly to Australian researchers who led the projects, for a total of US $1,348,630.”
Hope this will flush out the corrupt ‘sources’ originating from the US – may we get closer to FauciTheFaceofScience.
I live in Australia. We now have a Marxist Government that is handing out so many freebies and allowing so much migration from people who are totally anti democracy, anti semitism is rampant, cost of power is escalating by the day, small businesses are closing by the day. We have a Federal election in a matter of weeks and the fear is that this Government will be returned. Please President Trump, just take us over and save us.
Lol…your on your own, we have enough sh*t on our plate.🖖🏻
He’s ours.
There’s little wonder all these left leaning countries love the democrats in America. We are paying for them to love us.
“…………paying for them to love us.”
There’s a word for that. Just can’t think of it at the moment………..
Hmmm… does it begin with a P?
Bribe? Quid pro quo?
after trump gets done with them, canada can be the new ‘down under’. austrailia should pay attention to the chinese navy circling them and tell these academics to set to.
Just transfer the invoice to Outback Steak House
the ability to counterfeit is to remove the restraints on evil.
Trump administration has to get the facts out to Americans. 98% of the media is leftist and lies. People don’t know the facts about all the ridiculous stuff their tax money is going to for things that don’t benefit them. If they know the truth they will back the DOGE effort.
The average “American” doesn’t care, they just want Starbucks in the morning, Mc Donald’s for lunch and Olive Garden for dinner….
And Outback Steakhouse in the weekend.
Crocodile Dundee II and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Payback’s a bitch.
NTEU is the National Treasury Employees Union, at least in the USA. Why do they care about research funding in Australia?
I think in Aus it’s the Tertiary Education Union or something like that.
I find myself wondering how many American students could have attended college with that much money???
I have been laughing at some of the amusing comments here at the expense of us Aussies.
I’d just like to point out that many conservative Australians cannot stand the “honourable” dribbling scumbag pictured above that portrays himself as the Prime Minister of our country. Our ridiculous voting system down under allows morons such as him to become the “leader” of our country with almost 7 out of 10 people voting for other parties. He became PM with a primary vote of 32%, and the clown constantly says he has a mandate.
I never trust anybody with a speech impediment and his is so bad that any nearby microphone or TV camera gets sprayed with droplets from the verbal diarrhea exiting his gob every time he speaks.
I would also like to add that many of us detest our current “education” system, in particular our universities. Hopefully PDJT removes all such funding and maybe even triggers the collapse of some of these houses of indoctrination.
I feel the same about foreign funding as many of you have expressed. Countries should clean up their own backyard first before assisting other countries.
By the way, I go to this blog daily. Thank you Sundance for educating me on politics and corruption in the USA, and the steps being taken by PDJT to try and rectify the situation.
Amen. I agree. Australia should stop the climate BS, drill for gas, and rare earth minerals and mine more gold to fund everything. And get rid of the Nazi Greens, Teals and the woke lefty scum. Also kick the Gazans and the Palestinian scum out. They protest every weekend in the CBDs of Sydney and Melbourne. So much so that Aussies are afraid to go there and the result is many businesses there have closed down.
At this point you have to ask yourself; Is there anything we DON’T fund?
Good GOD.
You know he has to hear this every now and then to replenish his spirit and energize his state of mind
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/03/22/trump-receives-thunderous-applause-as-he-arrives-at-ncaa-wrestling-championship/
Wow. Didn’t know about this, but seriously…. if you can’t justify your funding, then you shouldn’t be funded, and it’s not the government’s job to bail you out. Universities here are nearly as much of a scam as U.S. higher education is.
In case not one else said it, “Claw back all the money we ever gave these these people!”
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And really we might cut their money off!
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What the h-ck!
I quickly read the accompanied article by Sky News and then alot of the comments. It seems the Aussies agree with Trump’s decision. Yea, Aussies!!
Just remember, as you read anything from SKY NEWS, either from the UK or Australia, it is OWNED BY RUPERT MURDOCH WHO ALSO OWNS FOX FAUX NEWS (as well as several pages of other media companies.)
To be honest Sky News Australia is the ONLY news TV station that agrees with and supports Pres Trump.
The rest are lefty woke scum like MSNBC, CBC and BBC
News.com.au a sister paper to NY Post isnt so sympathetic as I would expect it to be. On the other hand The Australian is very conservative and reports well
There are solutions to this, but our biggest problem is the willfully ignorant public at large. They still refuse to pay attention to what is happening.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/albanese-government-to-try-and-buy-votes-with-preelection-budget-splash-as-economists-sound-alarm-over-soaring-debt/news-story/0d385eeffa8c9756978436422c61d1b6
CSIRO was in on Covid, same as UQ (University of Queensland). there’s big chinese donors and Universities are more or less tax exempt because australia doesn’t tax foreign investment, which is how universities make so much money here. I want President Trump to hammer australia more, more tarifs. i see it as the only way out of our death spiral.
So which “random” judge will stop the administration this time?
Ausiestan is China’s coal mine.
Australia was well paid during COVID to go overboard with regulations, then force liberal policies on a subjugated populace. America isn’t the uniparty’s slush fund anymore, including funding ‘research’ at schools that have traded funds to influence and entrench their students in a globalist agenda.
While your scratching your head about the US sending funding foreign universities ask yourself why the US has a program to fund a guaranteed student loan programs in our own country. This is not the job of our government.