Prime Minister urged to call 'emergency meeting' after Trump administration cuts funding to seven Australian universities
Sky news AU ^
Posted on 03/22/2025 1:13:44 PM PDT by janetjanet998
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced calls to respond after the Trump administration cut funding to seven Australian universities. The administration's move came after US agencies asked Australian researchers to justify why they should continue receiving American research grants.
The surveys they received asked several questions including whether the researchers had received funding from China, and if their university had recognised only two sexes - male and female.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; doge; education; funding; primeminister; trump; universities
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To: janetjanet998
This is the junkie mentality. First they will plead, then they will get angry and threaten retaliation.
2 posted on 03/22/2025 1:17:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
To: janetjanet998
The US military protects everything in the world.
The US taxpayers pay for everything in the world.
Trump is the only US president to realize that we can reshape the entire world by using (or not using) or military and our money.
To: janetjanet998
wth does the US need to fund OZ universities???
4 posted on 03/22/2025 1:18:11 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: markman46
To learn more about kangaroos?
5 posted on 03/22/2025 1:21:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
To: janetjanet998
WTF! Why would we fund an Australian university?
6 posted on 03/22/2025 1:22:04 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: markman46
7 posted on 03/22/2025 1:22:05 PM PDT by henkster ("The masses are too stupid to understand our enlightened leadership" said every Marxist ever)
To: janetjanet998
What will they meet about? Lawfare? Hardee har!
8 posted on 03/22/2025 1:23:02 PM PDT by albie (U)
To: janetjanet998
Trump to Australia: "No more money for your universities"
Australians to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: "Do something! Respond to Trump!"
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to Trump: "No more Vegemite for you Americans!"
9 posted on 03/22/2025 1:23:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
To: janetjanet998
A memo sent by the US office of managament and budget to an Australian university project on January 27 and retrieved by The Guardian, declared financial assistance for the researchers was a waste of taxpayer money and explained federal spending priority would go towards “the will of the American people”.
“Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending ‘wokeness’ and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again,” the memo said.
“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.”
10 posted on 03/22/2025 1:23:38 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: ClearCase_guy
“Trump is the only US president to realize that we can reshape the entire world by using (or not using) or military and our money.”
Isn’t that the truth? Every past president in my 73 years looks like a wimp and pussy compared to President DJT. Even Regan was nowhere near this bold.
11 posted on 03/22/2025 1:24:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
To: janetjanet998
What? Why are we funding them? They spit in our face.
12 posted on 03/22/2025 1:24:39 PM PDT by dljordan
To: janetjanet998
The cut of funding could leave a $600 million hole in the efforts of Australian researchers, with the US the largest research partner of Australia.
13 posted on 03/22/2025 1:24:55 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: janetjanet998
why are we ‘funding’ anything in Australia? I don’t get it.
14 posted on 03/22/2025 1:25:39 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (Turns out, all we needed was a new President...)
To: janetjanet998
The surveys they received asked several questions including whether the researchers had received funding from China, and if their university had recognised only two sexes - male and female.
Wonder what the other questions were, didn’t make the fake news.
15 posted on 03/22/2025 1:26:09 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: SpaceBar
Right...because they think the US is supposed to be the world’s patsy FOREVER...
NO
16 posted on 03/22/2025 1:30:33 PM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
To: janetjanet998
17 posted on 03/22/2025 1:31:04 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
To: janetjanet998
In the article it says “the cut of funding could leave a $600 million hole in the efforts of Australian researchers”. According to taxfoundation.org the average US taxpayer pays $13,890 a year and the bottom 50% of taxpayers pay $822 a year. It would take 43,196 average taxpayers or 729,927 taxpayers in the bottom 50% for this hand out to a foreign country. Denver's population is 716,000.
18 posted on 03/22/2025 1:32:54 PM PDT by TN4Trump
To: janetjanet998
If nothing else the American taxpayers are learning just how much we are supporting things in other nations.
We are going in debt to give money to someone else. This has to stop.
19 posted on 03/22/2025 1:36:05 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
PDJT doesn’t just walk through the valley of the shadow of death. He swaggers.
20 posted on 03/22/2025 1:38:21 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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