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To Jason Clare MP, Minister for Education,


  • We call on you to immediately scrap the university report card regime.


  • Students at an Australian university already need a permit to protest on their own campus. Academics are self-censoring. Events are being cancelled. This is the direct result of your Government's surveillance regime, and it will only get worse.


  • We call on you to:
  • - Dismantle the university report card regime in its entirety.
  • - Legislatively protect academic freedom and freedom of expression on Australian campuses.
  • - End the use of public funding as a tool to suppress speech and protest at universities.


  • Universities exist for open inquiry, robust debate, and the free exchange of ideas. They are not compliance factories to be scored on how well they silence dissent.

Defend the Campus. Stop the University Speech Crackdown.

Protest on university campuses is being shut down.

The Australian Government has introduced a regime that grades every university from A to D. Not on teaching. Not on research. On how well they police what students say, where they gather, and what signs they hold.

Academics are being censored and made to attend speech suppression training. Events cancelled before they even happen. Vice-chancellors are being turned into enforcers. This is political surveillance dressed up as campus safety. It’s suppressing speech, controlling thought, and stamping out protest.

Universities are supposed to encourage argument, freedom of thought, and academic inquiry. This regime exists to end that.

If this stands, it won't stop at universities.

Sign the petition. Demand the Government scrap the report cards and defend free thought on every campus in Australia.