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We’ve turned our unis into aimless, money-grubbing exploiters of students
Of the many stuff-ups during the now-finished era of economic reform, one of the worst is the unending backdoor privatisation of Australia’s universities, which began under the Hawke-Keating government and continues in the Senate as we…
This is not so much “neoliberalism” as a folly of the smaller-government brigade, since the ultimate goal for the past 30 years has been no more profound than to push university funding off the federal…
The first of the budget-relieving measures war the least objectionable: introducing the Higher…