In 2008, Julia Gillard announced that the Rudd government’s policy of uncapping university places marked the start of ‘a higher education revolution to create one of the most highly educated and skilled nations on earth.’
Like most revolutions, the quest to reinvent the higher education system in Gillard’s Fabian image has left a hefty toll of casulaties in its wake.
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