Former High Court judge, Michael Kirby, has condemned the 'utter silence of university students on the big ethical questions facing their country' | michaelkoziol
Former High Court judge Michael Kirby has lashed the nation's students for their failure to adequately protest misdeeds by government and demand justice for Indigenous Australians.there was a "big contrast" between protest movements led by his contemporaries and the "utter silence of university students on the big ethical questions facing their country and its future today".
"Where are the students? Where are they speaking out? Where are they protesting? Where are they in the streets? Where are they able to voice concerns of the coming generation?" he asked. "They're not visible, they're not audible, and it is not good." At the event, Mr Kirby was particularly critical of the lack of protest about the repeal of the "medevac" laws, and asked why students were not marching to demand an Indigenous voice to Parliament.
School students rally against conservative inaction on climate change outside the Liberal Party Offices in William St on November 29.A group called Uni Students for Climate Justice has also organised a rally this Wednesday regarding the "unprecedented drought, bushfires and now a massive health crisis".
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