MEMOIRS
An academic’s life story mightn’t seem very entertaining, but I lived in interesting times, my career spanning the rise and fall of Australian universities. Not that I’m fretting about a lost Golden Age of academe – I had plenty to complain about in the pre-corporate universities. Not about the institutions themselves so much as some of the eccentrics who populated them – many of whom are now dead, which helps when you are writing your memoirs as accurately as you can. This is a work in progress.
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I arrive at the University of New England in 1963 to find myself in:
A university of a military kind 
I arrive at the University of Newcastle in 1972 to find myself in:
A university of startling contradictions
I retire to the beautiful Central Coast of NSW but there are:
Problems with neighbours
My singing career in the Philharmonia Chorus ends as it began in
Total Eclipse
