“If I allowed you to run my country, we would spiral down to rock bottom,” a defiant Mr Lee told the journalists. [link]. This from the man who years ago called Australia ‘poor white trash of Asia’.
Pictures and a write up of the protest at ANU here. It interesting reading the articles in various Australian papers. Read in the following order - The Canberra Times, The Sydney Herald Morning, and The Australian . Look for the selection of quotes and the sources.
There have been allegations that the ANU Chancellor and Council bypassed the normal procedures for the award. Jennifer Clarke makes a good point,
It’s kind of fitting, really: Lee didn’t respect the rule of law or democracy, despite his many other achievements. In order to give him an honorary doctorate in a field in which he does not deserve one (as opposed to, say, economics), the ANU Chancellor and Council bypass the institution’s normal procedures and consult none of its Asia or human rights experts!
Here for consolidated articles
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