I will be appearing at the Legislative Council Select Committee Inquiry into the Provisions of the University of Tasmania Act 1992 at 12 noon Thursday 2 March.
I am focusing on the Inquiry for now and will post again after 2 March.
This is a link to the Inquiry website.
My next blog post will be:
We need to talk about Rufus – Part 2 – Preview
While release of a fuller set of UTAS Council Minutes has added to the fullness of the picture, it has been clear to me for some time that VC Rathjen was the principal architect of UTAS’ proposed CBD move and that the process leading to the UTAS Council’s decision of 5 April 2019 to move to the Hobart CBD was well underway by the time of Rufus Black’s appointment as VC.
The issue then is what exactly Rufus Black ‘brought to the table’.
On 11 August 2022, I submitted an RTI application to UTAS seeking to explore the extent to which willingness to implement what I am now calling the Rathjen-Field-Hodgman-Hickey plan may have been a factor in the interview and selection process for his replacement. I was also interested in whether VC Black questioned the plan in any way on his arrival at UTAS.
I will discuss the information I obtained through my RTI application in We need to talk about Rufus – Part 2.
I will also discuss some interesting material I have come across in the last couple days.