The 2018 university environment is held hostage by political correctness and an Orwellian sense of authoritarianism and censorship. The long-purported idea that our academic institutions are places of enquiry and debate is on its deathbed.

It is events like the Sydney University Liberal Club’s talk with Bettina Arndt on the campus “rape crisis” and the fallout this has on university culture as a whole that highlights this issue, and it is events like this that will pull universities back from the brink.