Australia should Trumpify its universities

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Mark Scott is one of Australis’s greediest rent-seekers. Every year, Scott plunders $1.2m from Sydney University as its vice-chancellor.

It’s no wonder he remembers Harvard so well, hobnobbing with the Great Gatsby.

Three decades ago, I embarked on an exciting adventure to Harvard to complete a graduate degree, accompanied by my wife and two young children. The little one was 10 weeks old.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.