HE analyst Matt Brett’s personal submission to the O’Kane Accord points out from start (2003) to now the Higher Education Support Act has been amended 83 times, an average 85 days

Plus there were 742 policy instruments enabled by the Act.

“The success of Australian higher education might be attributed to this high frequency of well-targeted reform. Conversely, and in my opinion, there are at a minimum, substantial opportunity costs associated with consuming finite parliamentary and sector time on this level of policy reform,” Dr Brett suggests.

His policy-rich submission is HERE