Dr Oliver Hartwich: ‘Career suicide’ - the price of dissent in NZ universities

“We have become a corporate body concerned about brand image in a content marketing world in a climate of cancel culture,” lamented one academic.

“I feel my job is at risk if I question the direction the university is taking. The last round of redundancies was definitely about getting rid of those who were not boot lickers,” another reported.

A third warned, “Questioning anything about the radical current interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi is likely to be career ending.”