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IN HIS ARTICLE in Quadrant in May last year, "The Recuperating Universities", Bob Catley, recently returned to academic life in Australia after pursuing his career in New Zealand, painted a rosy picture of the state of Australian universities today. To him the universities are fast recovering from a malaise for which the radicals of the 1960s and 1970s--and arguably he was one--were most responsible. He claims that in the aftermath of "the Dawkins revolution" of the late 1980s and the recent Nelson reforms, "universities in Australia have emerged more responsive, more productive and less ideological", and that "for the most part Australian universities make an appropriate ...