
Rick Morton
Senior Reporter at The Saturday Paper
Senior Reporter: The Saturday Paper. Author: Mean Streak out now, One Hundred Years of Dirt and more. Country kid from QLD. [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
News Nous Group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs’ offices with ex-staff and buying ‘incredibly sensitive’ data that is sold back for benchmarking. By Rick Morton. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn When global consulting firm Nous Group arrives at a university, the company blueprint is always the same: weaken the academe, centralise power and cut staff.
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3 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
I have been taking extra-large gulps from the industrial vat of mouthwash in the bathroom. The idea came to me in a moment of domestic clarity – it won’t be finished before I go. Teeth brushed, I clocked the drum of Listerine and knew it couldn’t come with me. Too big. Better take bigger sips, I thought. I am not dying – though my high-school friend’s mum, who retrained as a lawyer late in life, found me in the local supermarket and has now done my will. I am moving to Paris. For a year, maybe longer.
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4 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
Senior government health officials ignored legal advice, deleted crucial text messages and misled investigators over the handling of a series of contracts worth $9 million, an audit office report has found. The contracts were given to a private consulting firm ostensibly to reform Meals on Wheels “governance” but ended in farce and with the firm in liquidation.
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4 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
A senior executive at the National Disability Insurance Agency has resigned a week after another set of controversial changes to the program were sprung on participants with little warning. Corri McKenzie was known as a “fixer” in the disability community for her attempts to untangle some of the worst National Disability Insurance Scheme system snares that harmed participants or threatened to make things worse.
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1 month ago |
rick-morton.ghost.io | Rick Morton
— 15 min read The kinds of grievous injuries for which I might be covered under my travel insurance policy are oddly combinatorial, I noted with some grim amusement from the couch while I read. A lousy $25,000 for the loss of both feet or the loss of both hands. Similarly, the loss of one foot and one hand – any mix – attracts a 25k payout. So far, I can see the logic. The product disclosure statement then descends further into detail.
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Australian National University says it will refer VC Genevieve Bell's LinkedIn account to authorities for investigation after I told them it had liked some posts about how Julie Bishop is a CCP-backed dictator enabler and Fauci trutherism. https://t.co/rqwHK7v1fK

University of Technology Sydney asked KPMG to analyse researchers by income generated and produce a master Excel list of productivity at the individual level as part of its $360m restructure. The EBA might have something to say about that. Revealing docs. https://t.co/Aq5Mz62MIl

RT @kevinbonham: Is Sky actually going to do anything about this whatsoever? Laughed at it at the time but even more hilarious given what h…