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Lc::I Institute Of c::I Institute of From the desk of Bella d’Abrera, Director, Foundations of lIR Public Affairs Western Civilisation Program 10 September 2020 Mr Alan Raine Education and Employment Legislation Committee Parliament of Australia Dear Committee Secretary Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 I write on behalf of the Institute of Public Affairs (“the IPA”) in response to the Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 The Institute of Public Affairs is committed to undertaking research to promote the importance of Western Civilisation in Australian society. The Foundations of Western Civilisation Program was established in 2011 to defend and extend Australians’ understanding of the influential, historical role of the West in establishing many of the liberties enjoyed by Australians today. A significant focus of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program is on education, ensuring that the next generation is capable of learning and understanding our past and heritage in the most academic and informative ways possible. To this end, the IPA has prepared this to communicate our research about the proposed Bill. Our research responds to Schedule 1 submission of the Bill which includes amendments to HESA to redesign the Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS) funding clusters and the Commonwealth Contribution amounts (CCAs) to better align CGS funding with the cost of delivering higher education and to ensure this funding is directed to areas of national priority and employment growth. We have also enclosed for your information two research reports of the IPA into the teaching of history at Australian universities. These are The Rise of Identity Politics: An Audit of History Teaching at Australian Universities (2017) and Australian History’s Last Stand: An Audit of Australian History Teaching at Australian Universities (2018). This submission refers to section 33-Commonwealth contribution amounts and grandfathered Commonwealth contribution amounts in relation to Funding Cluster 1, ‘Society and Culture;’ formerly referred to as ‘Humanities’. IPA Board of Directors: Dr Janet Albrechtsen – Chairman, John Roskam – Executive Director Dr Michael Folie, Dr Tim Duncan, Michael Hickinbotham, William Morgan, Maurice O’Shannassy, Geoff Hone, Rebecca Clough IPA Honorary Life Members: Mrs Gina Rinehart, Mr Harold Clough AO OBE CitWA, The Hon. Rod Kemp, Dr Bryant Macfie, Mr Baillieu Myer AC Level 2, 410 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000 | 03 9600 4744 | www.ipa.org.au | ABN: 49 008 627 727 c::I Institute of From the desk of Bella d’Abrera, Director, Foundations of lIR Public Affairs Western Civilisation Program The contribution amount for a place in Funding Cluster 1 is currently $4,901. The IPA supports the proposed amendment that this should be reduced to $1,100 from 1 January 2021, as detailed in Item 14 – Section 33-10. The IPA’s support for the proposed amendment is based on the proposition that the humanities, as they currently stand, are deficient. Students studying the humanities in Australia are at risk of finishing their degrees with a distorted view of the world in which the past is viewed as a contest between the oppressors and the oppressed. Moreover, students are left with little to no understanding of the values and institutions of Western Civilisation, which made the modern nation of Australia a successful and prosperous nation. Universities, and in particular academics who are currently employed in the humanities are using identity politics to undermine and disestablish the values which underpin the Australian way of life, such as egalitarianism, taking people as they are, reward for merit and entrepreneurship. The Humanities In theory, universities should be the principal institutions through which knowledge is preserved, generated, and disseminated. Yet 21st century Australian universities, or at least their humanities departments- have been infected with the modern-day disease of post-modernism. During the 1970s and 1980s, the humanities departments of Western universities rejected their original purpose, which was to make sense of and understand the world through the Western tradition of art, culture, and philosophy. Instead, they adopted a range of ‘new humanities’ subjects which were constructed entirely around the postmodern critical theory of identity politics, where everything must be approached in terms of a societal power struggle of class, race and gender No matter the subject, whether it be English Literature, Politics, Philosophy, History, Anthropology or Sociology, the subjects are approached using the same narrow and limiting lens. This has rendered the disciplines so similar that it has become almost impossible to distinguish between them. Some of the course descriptions for each subject are worth quoting in full as these descriptions encapsulate the state of the humanities in Australia universities: HIST2008 White Supremacy (The University of Western Australia- not available in 2020) Between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries, societies emerged in many parts of the world which deliberately gave 'white' people power over other 'races'. This unit begins by considering the material and intellectual origins of white supremacy. Emerging doctrines of racial differentiation and evolution are viewed against the background of colonisation, plantation slavery and inter-European warfare. The remainder of the unit is devoted to case studies of racial domination in a number of c::I Institute of From the desk of Bella d’Abrera, Director, Foundations of lIR Public Affairs Western Civilisation Program societies including South Africa, the United States of America, Kenya, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Australia. HUMS 3014 Identity and Representation (University of South Australia) Students will demonstrate and apply their knowledge to critically engage in and examine discussion and analysis of immigration, multiculturalism and the refugee policy, the history of the ‘white’ Australia policy, the social construction of whiteness and representations of whiteness in contemporary Australia, the media and national identity, racism and the media, anti-discrimination and anti-vilification legislation, fear and the politics of representation, Australia and Asian relations. ABST1030 Introduction to Indigenous Queer Studies (Macquarie University) This is a multidisciplinary unit that draws from both Indigenous and Queer Studies which have generally been treated as separate fields of academic inquiry. This unit prioritises the voices and perspectives of Indigenous Queer populations as transformative of the social, cultural, and political landscapes of Australia and beyond. Through critical engagement with Indigenous LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer) perspectives, students will develop an understanding of Indigenous Queer identities and the specific challenges that these communities endure under oppressive colonial regimes. This unit will explore Indigenous Queer worldviews and standpoints that interrupt, challenge, enrich and recalibrate our understanding of community, culture. PHIL20046 Feminism (University of Melbourne) “Feminism is for everybody”! “Men have no place on the women’s march!”. “If your feminism isn’t intersectional, it’s bullshit!” “It is not the job of feminism to care about all injustice everywhere!”. “Feminism is about women’s equality with men!”. “Feminism isn’t about equality with men, it’s about women’s liberation from what men have created!” These are all familiar claims, and yet they pull in completely different directions. What is feminism? Who is it for? Can men be feminists, or only allies? What is intersectionality, and must feminism be intersectional? In this subject we’ll critically consider a range of feminist theories, including both radical feminism and liberal feminism, and from all four ‘waves’ (with an emphasis on second wave feminism). We’ll also consider a range of applied topics like prostitution and pornography, inclusion of transwomen, theories of gender, gendered social norms, and reproductive rights. It is interesting to note that the University of Melbourne currently requires all Arts students to take one of the following Foundation Subjects; ‘Identity’, ‘Language’, ‘Power’, ‘Reason’, ‘First Peoples in a Global Context’, ‘Representation’. c::I Institute of From the desk of Bella d’Abrera, Director, Foundations of lIR Public Affairs Western Civilisation Program The subject descriptions for both ‘Power’ (MULT1008) and for ‘Identity’ (MULT1004) also merit quoting in full. The idea of power is a way to grasp the character of social relations. Investigating power can tell us about who is in control and who may benefit from such arrangements. Power can be a zero-sum game of domination. It can also be about people acting together to enact freedom. This subject examines the diverse and subtle ways power may be exercised. It considers how power operates in different domains such as markets, political systems and other social contexts. It also examines how power may be moderated by such things as regulation and human rights. A key aim is to explore how differing perspectives portray power relations and how issues of power distribution may be characterised and addressed. And; Who we are and what we do is all tangled up in our identity. This subject considers how identities are constructed and maintained through mediated processes of self
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