Today’s Sydney Morning Herald contains a report on the Young Liberals’ submission to the Senate Inquiry into Academic Freedom (which Mark has posted on here). The report begins:
ACADEMICS have accused the Young Liberals of a “witch-hunt” after two blacklists of Australian university lecturers accused of having a left-wing bias were presented to the Senate inquiry into academic freedom in Sydney yesterday.
The lists formed part of two submissions to the inquiry which allege systematic left-wing bias at Australian universities and high schools. They include the feminist and cultural theorists Catharine Lumby and Eva Cox, journalism lecturers Wendy Bacon and Peter Manning, and academics who are members of the Socialist Alternative party.
