Australia has been following in the footsteps of America and our Tertiary Corporatisation is just one proof. Degrees were once free, the government’s investment in our youth and our future, and health was a government responsibility, along with housing. Remember when the  ALP promise was ” no child will live in poverty”( Bob Hawke)?

Today’s yardstick has slipped to “we will do better than the LNP” That yardstick has become an inch stick

Since the 1970s, many colleges and universities have become predatory financial giants, while mountains of student debt pile up and academic work becomes ever more precarious. An ascendant academic labor movement may be key to reversing these trends.

Source: US Colleges and Universities Are Becoming Giant Exploitation Machines