What to make of made in Australia?
In 1999, Opposition Leader Kim Beazley gave an excellent budget-in-reply speech in which he attacked the Howard government for its lack of any sense of where the country was going. Australia, he said, needed investment in education, in research and development and in sensible industry policy. Now, almost 30 years later, the Albanese government, through its ...Read more
Unlocking the public value of universities
It is unfortunate that Labor’s Universities Accord gives so little attention to the actual situation of Australian universities. These are institutions in crisis. Many are in financial difficulty. Even where income is holding up, many academics feel alienated from the institutions they work for. Universities have become businesses first, and places of learning second. Academics and ...Read more