Union calls for Julie Bishop to be sacked from ANU role over shocking comments
National Tertiary Education Union Media Release
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has called for Australian National University Chancellor Julie Bishop to be sacked after appearing to blame staff for the organisation’s financial woes.
ANU management has announced a restructure which risks more than 600 job losses, while also asking staff to forgo an already agreed pay rise of 2.5% in December.
Asked whether it was fair to ask ANU staff to forgo their December pay increase, the Ms Bishop told the Canberra Times:
“It depends to whom you refer, because many members of staff have been part of the inefficiencies that the university is now seeking to address.”
Ms Bishop also rejected suggestions of financial mismanagement, despite the ANU’s budgeted $60 million deficit ballooning to a forecast deficit of more than $200 million for 2024.
Quotes attributable to NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes:
“These disgraceful comments blaming staff when it’s clear there’s been managerial incompetence are simply staggering.
“Bashing workers might have helped Ms Bishop climb through ranks of the Liberal Party but an attack like this makes her role as chancellor completely untenable.
“If Julie Bishop won’t resign today, she must be sacked. At a time when 600 jobs are on the line, blaming staff is reprehensible.
“This is emblematic of a broken governance system that needs an urgent federal parliamentary inquiry.”
Quotes attributable to NTEU ACT Division Secretary Dr Lachlan Clohesy:
“NTEU condemns the callous lack of contrition, empathy, and accountability displayed by the Chancellor.
“Her position as Chancellor of the Australian National University is untenable. NTEU calls for Julie Bishop to resign or be sacked.
“This blatant blame shifting exemplifies the lack of accountability in relation to university governance across Australia.
“We need an urgent federal parliamentary inquiry into university governance.”
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Jon Chesterson
Return to home pageShould never have been appointed in the first place. Square peg.
J Bishop as a chancellor type of a University was laughable enough.., and why did that happen and through what support by behindthescenes non-thinkers? Are there or were there courses in law manipulation, lack of justice, victim bashing, overbearing oppression? Shiny, cosmetically enhanced, camouflaged, ironed and dry cleaned, Ms. Bishop represented an aspect of astronomy there, a black hole.
Lest we forget; Asbestos Julie acted for corporates as they defended themselves against litigation claims from people dying of mesothelioma… a fatal condition contracted as a function of exposure to asbestos fibres.
It takes a certain kind of person – in her case, harridan – to, as PP alludes, possess a black hole where a heart ought to be, by using the court to argue for no compensation for dying victims of corporate malfeasance.
What strange times we live in, when a black-hearted witch like Bishop can enjoy the career trajectory that she has. Is she a psychopath, or merely the lesser version, a sociopath?
I would like to know just what qualifications she has to be university Chancellor, and also how much they are paying her to not be there most of the time??? She seems to have literally a whole string of jobs, she is always popping up in the news celebrating some new job or position………so as Chancellor is she paid as a part-timer???
And of course she is a former Lieberal politician so of course she is all about sacking workers and reducing pay……….what elese did they expect when they hired her………..oh wait, that is why they hired her.
Who appointed her? The university senate, or the gov?
IPA types.
I would not be as delicate as Canguro snd the rest, but there would be the problem of censorship if I were to say what I wanted to say in forthright terms.
ACADEMIC, POLITICAL AND CORPORATE SNOBBERY – NONTHINKERS
‘We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men [and women]
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw’.
So what does this say about the ANU? Sydney University gave John Howard an honorary doctorate, presumably for war crimes and corruption, and Christopher Pyne appointed industry professor at the University of South Australia. I mean really!
Universities in Australia are status factories, business enterprises churning out paper hollow degrees, exploiting foreign students, sycophants to politicians and government, practicing academic snobbery, nepotism and elitism. The more prestigious and arrogant you go up the ladder, the so called top universities are the biggest hypocrites and exclusive boys club industry in the country, just like the top private schools in Sydney and Melbourne – decadent models of prodigal and entitled withering capitalism.
We need radical educational reform, fully public funded with level access, ethical values and free from the tyranny of nepotism, elitism, politics, big business and profit, where the purpose is to provide the best education to all who can handle it on merit, better yourself and serve the interests of society, civilisation, humanity and progress. Till we get this right we will not have a reliable, responsible, moral, compassionate, fair, sustainable, resilient and incorruptible leadership or institutional culture. We are slowly withering away…
‘Not with a bang but a whimper’ – TS Eliot