Footnotes

Report

[1]         Odgers Australian Senate Practice, 10^th edition, p.456

[2]        ibid., p.458

[3]         ibid., p.460

[4]        ibid., p.459

[5]        See Appendix 1 – extract from Journals of the Senate, 21 August 2002

[6]        Dr Peter Shergold to Senator Kim Carr, 13 September 2002, Attachment A to DEST submission to Senate inquiry. See Appendix 2 to this report.

[7]        See, for instance, Senate Hansard debate Tuesday 21 August 2002, Matters of Urgency: Higher Education Funding.

[8]        DEST Submission no. 2, p. 2

[9]        ibid.

[10]       Peter Shergold, Financing University Education: an overview, Address to plenary forum higher education review, 3 October 2002, p.10

[11]       A recent review of census data conducted by the Australian Financial Review found that, despite increasing casualisation within the sector, there had been a substantial increase in the number of academics on salaries in excess of $78,000pa, largely due to competition to attract ‘star’ performers.

[12]       Gerald Burke and David Phillips, ‘Implications of Changed Indexation Arrangements for the Australian Higher Education System’, unpublished paper, October 2001

[13]       Senate Estimates - Derived from DEST Question E379_03, question asked by Senator Carr, 21 November 2002

[14]         Senate Estimates - Derived from DEST Question E661_03, question asked by Senator Carr, 13 February 2003

[15]       Standard and Poor’s Australian Universities – a credit rating perspective July 2003, p.8

[16]       ibid, pp.15-16

[17]       EWRE Hansard, Senate Estimates, 13 February 2003, p 300

[18]       DEST Triennium Reports 1996-2002. Percentages are calculated after the conversion of tables to constant 2002 dollars. Derived from NTEU submission to Higher Education at the Crossroads.

[19]       This is grossly inflated by increased funding to Batchelor. The cut to NTU is equivalent to –5.73%

[20]       Senate Estimates - DEST Question E596_03, question asked by Senator Carr, 13 February 2003.

[21]       Derived from Finance 2001: Selected Higher Education Statistics, DEST, 2003.

[22]       Senate Estimates – DEST Question E592_03, Question asked by Senator Carr, 13 February 2003.

[23]       University of South Australia, RMIT, Griffith University, Australian National University and University of New South Wales

[24]       DEST, submission no. 2, p.3

[25]       See, for instance, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2003

[26]       Brendan Nelson, Higher Education at the Crossroads, p. 5, quoted in Submission No 3, NTEU, p.2

[27]       Reference University Resourcing: Australia in an International Context

[28]       Senate Estimates - Response to Question E423_03, 22 November 2002

[29]       Letter, WA Auditor-General to Senator Carr: re Senate Inquiry into University Finances, 10 January, 2003

[30]       Letter Shergold to Carr, see Appendix 2

[31]       DEST, documentation provided to universities to assist with collection of data for profiles, 2002.

[32]       See, for instance, the letter of 1 November 2002 from Professor Gavin Brown to Senator Carr.

[33]       Statement of Principles on Commercial Confidentiality and the Public Interest, the Australasian Council of Auditors-General (www.acag.org.au)

[34]         ibid.