"The willingness of staff to attach their names to these letters demonstrates to the University that staff are not afraid to voice concerns about decisions by the University’s senior leadership."

So this isn't true. I know *many* people didn't sign because they were afraid of repercussions.

Wherever we end up next, this website will serve as a memorial to people who have been hurt. There's a lot of rebuilding to be done, I just hope we find the right people to do it.
www.shoesofanu.com

With ANU vigorously pursuing administrative centralisation, this work seems really relevant.

Breeze blocks?

It’s difficult to identify a change in tertiary education since the 1980’s that hasn’t diminished or degraded it. Morphing into a corporate enterprise with extraordinary “executive” salaries, outsourcing to consultancy firms and relentless reviews and restructures doesn’t look like moral leadership.

To change the course of history you'd probably need to construct irony dense enough to collapse into a singularity. This might be the closest we can get on Earth.

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