Australian academics are an unhappy lot. Numerous surveys, books and articles have drawn attention to this over the years.
The primary complaint is employment insecurity. This applies particularly to the reserve army of 67,000 casual staff who deliver over half the teaching in Australian universities.
But academics face other challenges. They are overwhelmed by unmanageable workloads and excessive demands from a rapidly expanding bureaucracy of university managers and administrators.
Disenchantment is particularly acute among higher-degree research academics and younger academics, although it cuts across all age levels and disciplines.
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