A dark cloud looms over Australia’s elite universities: the dark cloud of civilisation. Once welcomed for protecting the weak, healing the sick and ennobling the mind, civilisation is now feared as a harbinger of racism and colonial exploitation.

Western civilisation, that is. That’s the one to watch out for. All the others are just fine.

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Salvatore Babones