No Indigenous Voice Course; No Degree! By James Reed
“Monash University has introduced a compulsory module on Indigenous Australian Voices warning that students who do not complete the program will be unable to graduate.
The university launched the mandatory module in July and introduces it to students by acknowledging its campuses are “located on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin Nations.”
Well then, that means the lands on which the campuses are on have not been surrendered or transferred, looking up the term “unceded” in the dictionary. So, any remaining Kulin nation folk may make a native title claim against the university, and claim everything there for themselves, you know the law of fixtures. I support indigenous people claiming ALL Australian universities, right down to the last woke book, if they still have books left in what was once libraries; see the Converation.com.au reference below.
As for not being able to get one’s degree without doing the compulsory indigenous voice course, well, this should be challenged in the courts, as was it part of the contract fee-paying students made when going to university to do such courses? International students as well? How about investigating civil litigation for breach of contract? I am not a lawyer, but it might be worth a try.
But I think if this cannot be defeated in time, students should just give them what they want to hear and collect their piece of paper and join the dole line. Clearly one more argument, in my opinion, for closing down the universities, and giving them to indigenous folk. Yep, the Voice frenzy is just getting started. Hopefully World War III might change things. Will communist China, after a future Australian conquest be open to all of this? I don’t know, let me ask the Uyghurs.
“Monash University has introduced a compulsory module on Indigenous Australian Voices warning that students who do not complete the program will be unable to graduate.
The university launched the mandatory module in July and introduces it to students by acknowledging its campuses are “located on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin Nations”.
Monash has urged staff and students to finish the learning platform before their teaching period starts and warned they would lose access to fundamental university resources if it remained uncompleted by week two of the semester.
“If you don’t complete compulsory modules by the deadline, you will be encumbered,” the university has warned.
If a student is encumbered, they will lose access to the library, the university’s learning management system and their academic record or results.
Students will also be unable to sit eExams or graduate with Monash warning that this would “interfere with your participation in your units and submitting assessments”.
“So make sure that you avoid these problems by completing the modules on time,” the university said.
According to the university, the new introductory learning platform for teachers and pupils is designed to “ensure students fully understand Monash values”.
“We hope that by completing this module, it will be the beginning of your desire to learn more, and to contribute to a society that respects Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, cultures and knowledges, and works towards addressing the legacies of the past,” the university said.
A Monash University spokesperson confirmed the module was recently introduced but ignored questions put to them by SkyNews.com.au on whether the module advocates one way or another for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
The University also refused to explain who decides which social issues are turned into mandatory course material.
It comes amid a national debate about constitutional recognition of First Nations peoples, with the Albanese Government committing to a referendum on an indigenous Voice to Parliament in its first term.
The Voice to Parliament was a key element of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart and called for an elected Indigenous advisory body to the Federal Parliament.
The proposed body would advise the government on issues affecting First Nations people.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivered a landmark speech to the Garma Festival on Saturday again committing to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and unveiled the government’s proposed wording for a referendum question.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been given a standing ovation at the…
"Do you support an alteration to the constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?” the proposed question will read.
Mr Albanese also used the speech to clarify concerns about how the Voice to Parliament would operate within the confines of the existing Australian Government.
He said the body would simply serve to tell the parliament the “truth” about the struggles of Indigenous Communities and advise on how to address concerns across all First Nations communities.
“The Voice will exist and endure outside of the ups and downs of election cycles and the weakness of short-term politics,” he said.
“It will be an unflinching source of advice and accountability, not a third chamber, not a rolling veto, not a blank cheque but a body with the perspective and the power.
“And the platform to tell the government and the parliament the truth about what is working and what is not. To tell the truth with clarity, with conviction.”
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