February 25, 2006
"If, as I expect, historians are likely to see the liberation of East Timor as Howard's finest hour, will they view his impact on the domestic front, in tertiary education, any more charitably than contemporary commentators? I doubt it. His track record may be more respectable than many of his political opponents are prepared to concede, but it is they and a gaggle of leftist or postmodernist cultural historians who will be defining the received wisdom and writing the textbooks. Conservative critics have their own reservations about a decade of ad hoc policy and wasted opportunities."
"Increasing choice and competition have always been central planks of the Government's overall policy and it's a pity they didn't play a larger part in its thinking about tertiary education."
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