Group of Eight chief says campuses don’t want to see ‘escalation’ like what is occurring in the US
at Australian universities, saying campuses don’t want to see an “escalation” of the kind that is happening in the US.
Thomson assured that any reports of unlawful incidents “have been and will continue to be dealt with swiftly”.Mark Scott, the vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney, attended Thursday’s meeting. A protest on the lawns of his university is now into its 11th day, the longest of any Australian camps.on Thursday to reject calls from shadow education minister Sarah Henderson for police intervention, maintaining the exercise of free speech could be “challenging and confronting”.
On Friday, the University of Sydney camp was met with a counter-protest by the group Together with Israel, but the situation remained relatively peaceful. There was no apparent police presence.
The University of Melbourne’s vice-chancellor, Duncan Maskell, wrote to his university’s community last week reiterating respect for peaceful protest was “core” to the university’s values. On Friday, the Australia National University’s deputy vice-chancellor, Prof Grady Venville, addressed controversy over an ABC radio interview in which one ANU organiser offered “unconditional support” for Hamas and another refused to condemn the terrorist group.
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