Public universities shouldn’t be making political donations

By Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters
Updated June 3 2015 - 11:54am, first published 11:00am
Public universities shouldn’t be making political donations
Public universities shouldn’t be making political donations

It was recently revealed that the University of Wollongong has spent around A$20,000 over the past five years on lunches and dinners with politicians, including several fundraising events for the Liberal Party. Usually only one person attended these functions – probably someone at the top, though we don’t know for sure – but the donations themselves were made in the name of the university, thus making the university a sponsor of the Liberal Party.

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