The government’s review of the public service will include University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson and outgoing University of Melbourne VC Glyn Davis.  This should provide Professor Davis with an excellent opportunity to advance his long-held idea for a higher education commission that decides which universities get how much public funding.  It rather makes a mock of the ACTU complaining (in Saturday’s AFR) that the review is stacked with right-wing ideologues.  How fortunate that Professor Davis will be there to put Hayekian fiends in their place.