‘University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small,’ quipped Henry Kissinger adding, ‘University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.’
Today, we get the heady mixture of university politics and the violence of the Middle East justified by students, academics and administrators at Australia’s supposedly most prestigious universities – in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra.
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