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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Many thanks for your posting on Tehan’s intervention. It prompted me to write this submission, co-signed by some colleagues at Western Sydney. I paste it below for general circulation
(and documentation on the CSAA site, if you think that’s appropriate Elizabeth – great to see the CSAA submission just now).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Amidst the ravaging of COVID-19, you have been tasked with introducing a piece of legislation designed to bring much needed reform to higher education in Australia.
However, there are widespread fears and legitimate concerns that the outcome will dismantle the higher education sector in Australia. Framed around the intangible notion of ‘job-ready graduates’, it is likely that the legislation will not achieve its stated
aims. A quick review of relevant literature may have delivered the signal this legislation has clearly missed. Namely, that target disciplines grouped together in Categories 2-4 are among those currently in the process of undergoing rapid automation in workplace
settings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">What does this mean? That the jobs of the future assumed by the legislation will in many instances be performed by machines.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">See, for example, the following report by Deloitte:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/building-the-lucky-country.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/building-the-lucky-country.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The rebuilding of Australia’s economy will depend heavily on an educated population able to work in sustainable tertiary economies. Without this capacity, the
country will struggle to support an ageing population amplified by reduced levels of immigration. Moreover, financing the massive budget deficit from a taxation base not generated by a tertiary economy will inflict hardship on the people of this nation for
years to come.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Astute governments around the world have realised for decades the key role that universities have to play in fostering civic populations able to work in advanced
economies. The rebuilding of post-war Germany is a case in point. The Scandinavian countries would be other examples. What lessons can be gleaned from how these national economies approach the governance and funding of higher education?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Designing legislation able to support higher education in ways that prepare graduates for the future of work is a hugely important undertaking. Your ambition
to address this matter is highly commendable. Certainly the sector needs policy attention. Yet to the extent numerous scholarly studies and empirically informed policy reports can ascertain, the impact of automation technologies on the future of work indicates
that your legislation will have corrosive effects that undermine social cohesiveness and economic prosperity.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Please do take the opportunity to consult experts before proceeding further. The country and world is at a tipping point and smart thinking is required to design
and orchestrate new paradigms of social and economic life. At this historical juncture, legislative reform for the higher education sector presents an opportunity to make critical decisions that contribute to the national interest—rather than damage it.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Professor Ned Rossiter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Associate Professor George Morgan</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Ned Rossiter | Director of Research<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au> on behalf of Anna Hickey-Moody <anna.hickey-moody@rmit.edu.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 13 August 2020 at 9:20 am<br>
<b>To: </b>Caaa List <csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[csaa-forum] Draft legislation on HE reform open for feedback<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is Tehan’s draft legislation proposing HE reform. I’m sure most of you will have seen this already. We have until Monday to email our feedback to Tehan and I think we should probably also “tweet” or “Facebook“ our feedback to encourage
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