{"id":27400168,"date":"2026-03-31T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsw.nteu.au\/council\/?p=27400168"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:42:02","slug":"abc-4-corners-campus-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsw.nteu.au\/council\/news\/abc-4-corners-campus-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 4 Corners: Campus Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>On Monday 30th March, Four Corners shone a light on the crisis in our universities.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\">ABC Four Corners\u2019 <span class=\"s1\"><i>Campus Chaos<\/i><\/span> exposed a crisis that university staff have been warning about for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alongside the turmoil at ANU, the episode featured UTS and UOW, and highlighted the pernicious role consultants now play in our public institutions \u2014 driving opaque restructures, corporate decision-making and decisions that staff and students are forced to live with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These issues have also been at the centre of the NSW parliamentary inquiry into university governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">NTEU members helped bring this story to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Members at NSW universities were at the heart of the evidence, the scrutiny and the public pressure. 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