The controversial inauguration speech of former University of Queensland president Peter Hoy as president of the University of Adelaide was cut short by student protests. Peter Hoy’s inaugural speech as president of the University of Adelaide has been cut short by student protests. Drew Pavlou, the University of Queensland’s head of democracy, joined Uighur and Hong Kong students in expressing their displeasure with the former University of Queensland president, who is a guest of the Chinese government, and the University of Adelaide’s appointment of the pro-China president.
At the opening of the University of Adelaide recently, former University of Queensland president Peter Hoy began his tenure as president of the University of Adelaide. Peter Hoy began his tenure as president of the University of Adelaide. However, the new president’s inauguration speech was interrupted by protests from students and local groups at the University of Queensland and the University of Adelaide. This is the first Time since the University of Adelaide was founded that the inaugural address has been interrupted and cancelled.
Peter Hoy Professor Peter Hoy was suspended for two years for his role as a global advisor to the Hanban, his close ties to the Chinese government and his acceptance of Chinese funding for four courses on Chinese foreign policy at the University of Queensland, and his high-profile actions against Drew Pavlou, a pro-democracy student at the University, and his silence in response to an attack on the student by pro-Chinese government activists at the University. The student has been condemned and criticized from Australia and around the world for his silent treatment of the attack on the school by pro-Chinese government activists. With the attention of the Australian political establishment and the world’s media, Peter Hoy resigned from his position at QUT a year ago. Peter Hoy resigned from his position as president of the University of Queensland a year ago in response to the attention of Australian politics and the world media.
On the day of the protest, Drew Pavlou said in an interview with the station, “We drove more than 2,000 kilometers to hold this protest with the student groups here because we want the University of Adelaide to know that many of the Uighur students here have their families imprisoned in concentration camps by the Chinese government and that the entire Uighur community is facing genocide. There are other minorities such as the Tibetans who face the same oppression by the Chinese government. The good prosperity of Hong Kong has been completely destroyed by the Chinese government. We should not be thinking about taking funding from the Chinese government without considering human rights.”
He then said the University of Queensland suspended him because it realized his protests threatened the university’s relationship with the Chinese government, a relationship worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. By removing him from campus, they told other students that they should remain silent about what the Chinese government was doing and prevented other campus protests from taking place. Lastly, Mr. Bailes told reporters that on March 11, the Australian Parliament will hold a hearing on the relationship between Australian academic institutions and the Chinese government, at which he will attend and testify that under pressure from the Chinese government, Peter Hoy has authorized the University of Queensland to send its students to the University of Queensland. He will attend the hearing and testify that under pressure from the Chinese government, Peter Hoy authorized the University of Queensland to suspend him from his studies. Peter Hoy Hoy will also face some parliamentary questioning about his funding sources and his relationship with the Chinese government.
In his speech, Bonnie, another Hong Kong student at the University of Queensland who participated in the protest, said, “We came from the University of Queensland to the University of Adelaide with the sole hope of getting Peter Hoy Home. We just want Peter Hoy to go home. Because Peter Hoy He doesn’t care about human rights, he doesn’t care about the fact that the Chinese government is committing genocide in Xinjiang and Tibet. “Meanwhile, Bonnie mentioned that the University of Queensland has seen almost zero growth in local Australian students in the last five years and a 30 percent increase in International Students, 20 percent of whom are from China. Peter. Hoy also received a $200,000 award for increasing the university’s revenue.
Commenting on the day’s protest, the President of the Student Representative Council at the University of Adelaide said: “Students should have the right to voice their concerns and today’s action shows that students have the right to do so. If someone is going to say that students are not allowed to protest, then we are not going to accept that. “
Reporters on student protests against Peter. Hoy as the president of the University of Adelaide called the University of Adelaide Chancellor’s Office, the phone was not answered.
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