Be sure to stay for the slimy consultant (whose firm collects data from universities, sells it back to them and then gets lucrative contracts from said unis to improve their performance 🤦♀️). Apparently the going rate to tank staff morale and trash a university's reputation is only $2 million (AUD).
try and imagine a bigger W as an academic
Australian university staff watching #4corners tonight
A fan of my "Catsden Flag" convinced me to make tees with the design on them. Last time I did that no one was interested in them, but she really wanted to buy one, so... why not. Anyway, here it is: www.emilyk.art/product/cats...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Maureen Gallagher
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.
She accepted three.
One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
It's not exactly fun when your university becomes the poster child for dysfunctional university governance, but this is absolutely critical reporting by the ABC.
Tim Flanagan
Maureen Gallagher
Not to say "we told you so," but...
Maureen Gallagher
So I’ve started uploading new stuff to my website. There’s a lot so check back over the next 36 hours!
I have lots of Aurora pieces (including pins) that usually go straight to local stores. They will still go there, but online has first dibs. Guillotines restocked too.
#bsnm
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Looks like the @nteuact.bsky.social was right all along
Looks like the @nteuact.bsky.social was right all along
When teaching and research at unis is so stretched that management are closing departments and sacking staff, shovelling these huge amounts of public money to outside, private sector consultants - who do neither - is unforgivable www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
This cat will tread where it pleases. A response to the Far-Right appropriation of the American Revolutionary War "Gadsden Flag," this "Catsden Flag" shows a black cat crushing the original flag's ra...
The Australian National University (ANU) has spent the past eighteen months in a state of rolling crisis. The headline issues are now familiar. In October 2024, a large projected deficit was announce...
ANU's council approved a massive $250 million cost-cutting program without clear evidence it was needed or achievable, according to an assessment in a draft audit office report.
ANU's council approved a massive $250 million cost-cutting program without clear evidence it was needed or achievable, according to an assessment in a draft audit office report.
