Stephen Parker

(He/him)

VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the upcoming budget

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including the lead up to May’s budget, Prime Minster Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey’s challenge in selling the budget, Labor’s new superannuation policy and rivalries in the cabinet.

VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Abbott’s leadership style

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including John Howard’s address at University of Canberra’s Future Leaders Congress and whether Prime Minister Tony Abbott should follow the Howard prescriptions.

VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Abbott’s leadership

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including the New South Wales state election, if Tony Abbott is likely to be replaced and who would gain from a leadership transition to Malcolm Turnbull.
If passed, the changes to higher education will mean Australia is ‘sleepwalking towards the privatisation of its universities’, according to University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker. AAP/Paul Miller

Stephen Parker: higher education changes a ‘fraud on the electorate’

Had someone told me last summer that I would be defending public universities on the first day of next summer I would have ridiculed the idea. Somehow I believed what the Coalition wrote in early 2013…

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