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Open Letter
Daniel Andrews  MP                                                                                                            21 November 2018
Premier of Victoria

Back in the late 1970s, during my first teaching job at Hobart Technical College, one of the staff from the School of Business Studies was offered a two-year contract in the Seychelle Islands. I was both impressed and envious, imagining how wonderful...

One of the greatest pleasures of working in higher education was my opportunity to be an occasional consultant for the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for a couple of decades – a much longer period than the reigns of its Presidents, as there were three...

If you want to read a couple of revealing books about the world wars of the 20th century, then my choices would be Robert Graves’ Good-Bye To All That and Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man. Both are autobiographies, Graves’ concerning his role as an English...