US cuts funding for seven Australian universities

The White House has cut funding to seven Australian universities after they were sent surveys to see if joint research projects aligned with Donald Trump's agenda.

Academics were asked whether they have ties to communist or socialist parties, receive funding from China and it only recognises male and female sexes.

US funding for $600 million worth of research efforts are now in jeopardy.

Researchers are calling on the Albanese government to step in and prevent any further grant cuts.

The Australian Education Department says the total amount of funding cut by the US is unclear.

[antoniomaceo]

Why is the US funding Universities in Australia???

[NickManCuso]

Why is America funding Australian universities ? RIDICULOUS !!!

[jmcfarr]

Why were they ever doing that in the first place…..crazy

[pgson]

Im Australian and i support this move.

[judyb]

I’m an Aussie and I didn’t even know that the US was funding some of our universities.

[peter]

So the schools are telling the prime minister not to allow the americans to stop giving them money. Good luck on that.

[mv]

As an Australian, the only country that should fund our universities is us.

[paularose]

The news reports it like it's a bad thing LOL .. says everything you need to know right there.

[Sacramento-mvnr]

Why are American Taxpayers funding Australian Universities.?

[JustAskingForAFriendOfAFriend]

Why would one first world country fund another first world country?

[OGDailylama]

Now you know why we say we pay for everything. We have been getting robbed for decades!

[Interestedonlooker]

Fair enough. No idea why we would be receiving funding from US.

[robinbieberly]

I had no idea just how corrupt our country had become. Thank you, President Trump and Mr. Musk.

[dd-ddco]

Why is the US funding overseas Universities?! The spending is just ridiculous.

[sallydommett]

Why should American tax payers pay for our universities. It does beg the question where is Australian tax payers money going

[VeronicaGarcia-hfjb]

WHY ARE WE FUNDING UNIVERSITIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES?

I wouldn’t expect other countries to fund our schools!

[maccar]

Why is the US funding Australian universities anyway. No! The world has been living off the US

[noah]

As a American I have nothing against Australia or anyone else but us tax dollar shouldn’t goto any foreign university.

[_iLLuSiv_]

It would seem to me, there are way too many people, companies, universities, contractors and so forth with their hands in the pocket of our taxes. Who keeps tabs on where or who this money is going to, is it being audited correctly? From what we have seen from DOGE, not much auditing goes on, and this money just vanishes!

[Truckerk]

Why the held are taxpayers paying for Australia