... is valuable both in its own right and as a conceptually clarifying resource for contemporary analyses of collegiality and managerialism. The standard structure of an Australian university today has, at the top, the university’s governing Senate or Council, beneath this the Vice-Chancellor...

..., the ubiquitous managerial stranglehold over academic work in Australian universities – none of these has any real place in Davis’ narrative. The impact of political choice on university policy is consistently mystified as an objective, inalterable necessity: Davis refers uncritically to the “need to do well...