The Modern University Workplace
Few institutions have changed so profoundly over the past quarter century as our universities. Walking west along Sydney’s Broadway, you pass three universities within three kilometres. The physical transformation of this end of town, with over 118,000 students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate courses is unmistakeable, but internally universities have changed even more fundamentally.
What would Nineteen Eighty-Four be like if it were written today?
‘To be corrupted by totalitarianism,’ George Orwell wrote. ‘one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. The mere presence of certain ideas can spread a kind of poison that makes one subject after another impossible for literary purposes. Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy – or even two orthodoxies, as often happens – good writing stops.’
Sallie-Anne Huckstepp
On 6 February 1986, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp received a phone call from convicted drug dealer Warren Richards, an associate of Arthur ‘Neddy’ Smith and Roger Caleb Rogerson.
Death in Dangar Place
When Warren Lanfranchi went to a meeting with Detective-Sergeant Roger Rogerson on 27 June 1981 in Dangar Place, Chippendale, he knew he might never return.