Victorian Premier Grovels for Chinese and Indian Students: A Shameful Spectacle in the Decline of Western Civilisation, By Paul Walker

In a display that reeks of desperation and cultural capitulation, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has been caught on camera literally begging Chinese and Indian students to return to Melbourne's universities! Please come back to Victoria, or words to that effect, she pleads in a viral video, her tone a mix of supplication and salesmanship, as if Australia's education sector were a clearance sale rather than a bastion of Western intellectual tradition. This grovelling isn't just embarrassing, it's a profound symptom of how far the once-proud civilisation of the West has fallen, prioritising economic metrics over sovereignty, identity, and self-respect.

The backdrop to this humiliation is stark: Australia's international student enrolments have surged to a record 839,200 in the year to June 2025, up 1.6% from 2024 and a whopping 18% above pre-pandemic levels. That's more than triple the 266,100 from two decades ago. Universities here boast the world's second-highest concentration of foreign students after Luxembourg, a statistic that sounds impressive until you realise it's less a testament to academic excellence and more a crutch for an economy addicted to visa-driven revenue. China and India dominate this influx, their numbers exploding as Australian institutions chase the fees that subsidise everything from bloated bureaucracies to virtue-signalling diversity quotas.

Allan's plea comes amid a cap on international students imposed by the federal government to curb housing pressures and migration overload, a policy that's left states like Victoria scrambling. But let's call it what it is: not savvy diplomacy, but a leader on her knees, importing en masse mostly from nations whose values clash with the Enlightenment principles that built the West. We've traded the Socratic method for student visas, turning universities into economic zones rather than crucibles of critical thought.

How did Western civilisation arrive at this nadir? It's the culmination of decades of neoliberal folly, where GDP trumps heritage. Post-WWII, the West opened its doors to rebuild through immigration, but what started as selective talent acquisition devolved into a free-for-all, and then a Great White Replacement. Globalisation's siren song promised prosperity, yet it hollowed out domestic priorities: housing crises, wage stagnation, and cultural erosion. Now, with birth rates plummeting and native populations shrinking, leaders like Allan don't rally their own citizens to study and innovate; they import replacements, begging foreigners to prop up the system. It's a Hobbesian bargain, sacrificing dignity for dollars, as if the West's intellectual legacy can be sustained by outsourcing its student body.

This isn't mere policy; it's existential shame. Imagine Churchill or Menzies witnessing their successors grovelling to Beijing and Delhi for enrolment numbers? The West, birthplace of democracy and science, reduced to a service provider for the East's aspiring middle class elite! Allan's video isn't just a gaffe, it's a mirror to our decline, where leaders value foreign tuition over fostering homegrown talent. If we continue this path, Western civilisation won't collapse from external threats but from internal surrender. Time to stand tall, not kneel!

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