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Cover photograph and photograph p1 7 of Genevi eve Lacey by Eli za beth O' Donnell 35 Woomera file Graphics pp8, 10, 13, 19, 21,22-23, What really happened on Good Friday? 24-26, 33, 43 by Siobhan jackson SPEC IFIC LEVITY Ca rtoon p9 by Dean M oore fohn Chesterman and Sally Clol<e Photograph p1 3 by Bill Th omas were there. 47 [oan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT: 1 The writing on the wall Frank Jackson argues that another rev iew of universities won't so lve the basic problem of underfunding. R UPERT M uRDOCH said it first. Then John Policy Research put the shortfall resulting from not Schubert said it. N ow Ian Macfarlane is saying it. Our using average weekly earnings to adjust university universities are in serious trouble and this is bad news grants at $500 million a year, in 2001 dollars. for the future of this country. Our universities need a The minister has announced a review of the way lot m ore m on ey. our universities are funded. He has also said that he We are used to hearing lobby groups calling for would like to see m ore concentration of funding for m ore money and understandably treat such calls with research and has talked of the importance of Australia's caution . Of course the Australian Vice-Chancellors' having one or two universities that figure among the Committee and the National Train- best in the world. Unless there is more money in the ing and Education Union will think system , the only way this can happen is by robbing The rea son universities our universities are under-funded. But Peter to pay Paul. And if there arc to be one or two, when a m edia m agnate, the president the smart m oney is on the one or two coming from are in trouble is that of the Business Council of Australia the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the Federal Reserve Bank Gover- and the Australian National University. It will be their funds have nor all say the sam e thing, we must interesting to hear the reactions of the rest of the worry. system, the paren ts who are planning to send their remained roughly the This is why the government's children to, say, the University of Western Australia refusal to respond positively-the min- or Charles Sturt University, the premiers of Queens- same at a time when ister Brendan N elson has effectively land and South Australia, and politicians whose said there will be no more m oney for electorate include universities outside the one or two. unavoidable costs, universities in the budget-is so puz- The review the minister is heralding must find zling. The government likes to claim some way of increasing the funds available to our especially salary costs, that the funding for universities has universities. That way we can con centrate our remained the sam e in real terms over research eff orts- but please in m ore than one or two have risen sharply. the last five or so years (sometimes, universities, Australia is a vast country-without it says that it has actually gone up). damaging the rest of the system. • Give or take the odd quibble, this is true but misses the point.