It was a female podcaster asking the question/ pressing for an answer so this isn't grubby locker room talk the way Henderson and others are implying.
If they really want to play the how low can you go game remember how Morrison handled Brittney Higgins or the marches against domestic violence.
It's a "game" million of people play. Is ever participant meant to be a sexist?
source: ripped from https://x.com/friendlyjordies/status/2073640580588998844
Early thirties, tried a musical career but is now apparently into grifting. Or at least has become the face of a fake charity-like organisation that generates AI content of its 'good works' (that don't exist).
Not even a particularly big fan of that hot parmigiana guy but god damn, are we really allowed to call for brigading against specific users in here? Like fuck me dead, this guy didn’t provide any proof to back up his accusation and blocked me and anyone else who called him out on it. Disgusting behaviour.
She is right. Being proficient in English should be a basic requirement to get a qualification from our universities.
Transcript of Senator Mehreen Faruqi:
The Four Corners exposé revealed that in just one year, universities spend $1.8 billion of public money on consultants.
When university councils are stacked with corporate appointees and conflict of interests are rife, it’s really no wonder that billions of dollars of public funds are lining the pockets of private consultants.
So this is not surprising, but it is actually shocking that so much public money is splashed on consultants while staff and students suffer under unfair conditions, under heavy workloads and under higher and higher fees.
University VCs who are paid obese, obese and obscene salaries have been all too willing to sign the check and implement the neoliberal corporate agenda of their consulting buddies. The corporate university model has resulted in $50,000 arts degrees, courtesy of the disastrous JRG scheme.
It is a model that has turned higher education a public good into a market for profit seeking firms and austerity obsessed executives, even though they are very happy to walk away with bloated pay packets.
The Labor government is tinkering around the edges and that is not going to cut it.
The system’s decay of consultant capture and a ruthless corporate culture needs a complete overhaul of governance, of accountability, transparency, of funding and fees and the evidence provided by NTEU staff and students, very bravely, again and again has been damning. So shout out to all of them.
University staff and students should be running [the education].
Youtube link of this video from 8 Apr 2026: https://youtu.be/O0N4CTtEvF4?si=-BnC2nAxxOwqqRbP
Other Links:
The Four Corners documentary and exposé referenced is this: Universities $1.8 billion consultancy spending under wraps | Four Corners Documentary.
There are news articles about the scandal, like from ABC: Universities' $1.8b spend on consultants and contractors shocks experts and politicians
Their history is loaded with pro one nation posts and pretending to be a Labor supporter when they clearly are not. They have spammed multiple Aussie subs with this shit for like 21 hours per days activity.
They are trying to manipulate Australians into believing there is grass roots support for Pauline and that one nation are a viable opposition whilst taking subtle jabs at Labor.
They hide their support for one nation by posting one nation stories and then commenting “wouldn’t it be scary if one nation got in, they are doing really well, us Labor supporters should watch out for how successful they are” type bullshit.
It’s likely they are part of the fake one nation engagement teams from Indonesia.