Former union boss Joe de Bruyn’s keynote address triggered a mass walkout. But the ACU vice chancellor wasn’t there.
The blowback from the Australian Catholic University’s decision to grant conservative unionistan honorary doctorate, which he then used to rail against abortion to distraught nursing and medical graduates, continues to reverberate through the Catholic establishment.Only a handful of people remained on stage with Joe de Bruyn after the mass walkout by students and staff.did not attend the controversial ceremony in Melbourne on Monday., a former Queensland Supreme Court judge, also played truant.
“It was very unusual for the vice chancellor not to be there. Nobody can explain this. It is a break from university practice,” a senior Catholic told CBD.But an ACU spokeswoman said: “With seven campuses in Australia, ACU has multiple graduation ceremonies in NSW, Victoria and Queensland, and it is not unusual for this role to be delegated by the chancellor to the pro chancellor, chair of academic board, the vice chancellor, or one of the university’s senior executive.
“A Catholic university is such a place where civil engagement on questions of the most vulnerable among us can be, and should be, entered into.”For all their bluster about being the “party of renters,” nearly half all federal Greens MPs own investment properties, a factoid that no doubt fills Labor operatives with irrepressible glee.Mehreen FaruqiBut there’s been a change at the top after Faruqi sold a four-bedroom house in Port Macquarie for $920,000, a smidge under the $1 million price guide.
Faruqi’s people maintained the senator remained committed to the fight against wealthy property investors despite her recent windfall.
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