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Close to the white mansion that John Wren built is Raheen, still occupied by Daniel Mannix, halfway through his immensely long archbishopric, and a vivid presence in the book, walking daily from Raheen to St Patrick’s Cathedral in his frock coat and top hat. Batchelor, with just under five hundred student places allocated for 2006, is the sole survivor of pre-Dawkins days. But in the mid-1970s this was well into the future. But this latest reform remains unfinished business – a private sector is allowed scope to compete, but public institutions remain bound and constrained. By 1990 the now standard model of an Australian university had emerged: large, comprehensive, multi-campus and research-based. 

Carnegie Mellon offers American rather than Australian degrees. Caroline Lurie was Elizabeth Jolley' s agent Close to the white mansion that John Wren built is Raheen, still occupied by Daniel Mannix, halfway through his immensely long archbishopric, and a vivid presence in the book, walking daily from Raheen to St Patrick’s Cathedral in his frock coat and top hat. Biography, as Ian Donaldson showed in his essay ‘Matters of Life and Death: The Return of Biography’ (ABR, November 2006), is now a plastic, responsive, democratic and, yes, reputable art, capable of all sorts of liberties and latitude. 

But in the mid-1970s this was well into the future. By then Niall was alert to the perils of biographies (those ‘border-crossings into other lives’): the moral scruples, the legal risks, the curse of good taste, the tenuous access to papers. Dawkins announced that the Commonwealth would only support institutions with a minimum of 2000 full-time students. During 2006 Minister Bishop has allowed institutions to begin this process, while Labor has proposed a formal mechanism, a negotiated compact between Canberra and each university, acknowledging different roles, missions and circumstances. Elsewhere, we have Richard Holmes’s seminal Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1995) and Leon Edel’s Bloomsbury: A House of Lions (1979), but Australian examples are few.

Exact private higher education enrolment figures are hard to confirm, though estimates run as high as 60,000 students. Faced with a pressing need to replace lost income, Australia’s public universities responded by increasing student-to-staff ratios and recruiting full-fee paying students, first from overseas and later locally.

Finally, Dawkins wanted consistent national standards. For Canberra, the distinction between expensive university education and more economical technical training offered a compelling financial rationale. Free tertiary education would end, with students now subject to a Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS). Given the very few options open to institutions facing annual budget cuts, the strategies adopted by public universities differed in detail but not in overall direction. An indulgent professor spared her ‘the ordeal of the lecture theatre’. Another thing you once told me, while we were driving to an airport in the early 1990s: ‘I would like,’ you said, rather tentatively – because I think you were horrified at the idea of appearing self-important – ‘to write something of significance one day’. As economist Max Corden argued, one philosophy that Dr Nelson favoured was complex bureaucratic controls whose consistent application reduced diversity – creating ‘Moscow on the Molongo’, in Corden’s memorable phrase.

Her parents had just built a salubrious house on Studley Park Road, near Kew Junction. His initiatives to assist the private sector have encouraged an expanding new sector of academies, colleges and institutes. I am in love with Nettie Palmer.’ The idea has a certain appeal, but not for long.

I recognised you, dear Elizabeth, and I thank you for all that you were in life and for leaving behind an inspiring body of work for us to remember you by. If Australia is to develop a University of the Arts, or a Caltech equivalent, it will happen because an existing public university sees the opportunity and is allowed to evolve in that direction.

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