A conference held last week by the University of Sydney’s taxpayer-funded National Centre for Cultural Competence has proven once and for all that Australian universities are not only hotbeds of identity politics, but that they are also imposing this post-modernist madness on society at large, and at society’s expense. Entitled ‘Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector: Dilemmas, Policies and Practices’, the two-day conference was attended by an assortment of academics from both Australian and American universities who gathered together to talk about cultural competence.