Nice piece. I look forward to the follow up piece about the demise of Oz universities which collapsed under the mass of their bloated bureaucracies. The dig would uncover tons of KPIs, performance audits, strategic plans, bills from advertising companies, records of absurd remuneration levels for managers, in short an organisational structure that could only exist 'outside' the real world. As Don Watson noted a while back. There is this terrible institutions in the US. Has no KPIs, no mission statement, no strategic plan. Must be a disgrace to the academy. An abomination, a laughing stock. Except that is, for the 26 Nobel prizes.

Thanks for the Kennedy quote, it identifies the cracks in the neoliberal monotheistic GDP theology very nicely indeed. Cheers!