The suspension of University of Queensland student, Drew Pavlou, was announced late last week following the decision of a disciplinary tribunal set up by the University’s senate. Pavlou’s crimes were to organise a pro-democracy demonstration on campus, in June 2019, in support of Hong Kong students and the unauthorised use of a pen in the library. Reaction to the decision has been flooding in from all over the globe. 

Late yesterday, a spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party said “For f*** sake! They had one job! How hard can it be? We sent the memo, they acknowledged receipt.