“Merely academic”

Bruce Wearne, BALLARAT CENTRAL, Oct 4, 2024

Our gad-fly, “Clover Leaf” group, had gained audience with the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash Inc. That was a few months before the “merger” – Chisholm was not to be “amalgamated” with Monash; this was to a “merger”. This was the “politically correct” term for this “flagship” initiative of the Dawkins reforms. Once more our hypothesis was confirmed. Within Chisholm IT itself, and before 1982 within Caulfield IT: the “economic rationalist” ideology that drove the David Syme Business School was driving not only Chisholm but also the merger.

We had previously invited to the Head of the Federal Department of Education, Employment and Training to address our “Save the Brainforests” conference, to consider the Dawkins’ “Green Paper”. We were immediately reprimanded for an egregious misnaming of the Department of Employment, Education and Training! Hypothesis confirmed! Meeting with the Monash University President was further confirmation. It was to be a “merger”. Correct terminology keeps what is necessary on the rails.
And now the Monash Business School now construes its history from 1974! https://www.monash.edu/business/banking-and-finance/about-us/our-story
for at least half a century public debate about the right use of the term “university” has been undermined by suggestions that such debate is “merely academic”.

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