Academics aren’t happy with the new workload model and wrote to the chancellor asking for help (CMM April 6 and 19)

But Nick Burton Taylor isn’t getting involved, responding that there are consultation processes in place and people’s concerns will be kept confidential. And he politely points out that while he recognises they have concerns, “council is responsible for all our staff members in addition to the numerous stakeholders that a regional university, such as ours, represents. It is this whole of Southern Cross University’s well-being that is Council’s focus and which is so challenged by the external circumstances that we continue to face.”

About as polite a brush-off as possible.