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The Dawkinsization of Australia

Australia's universities begin this month an academic year that will see them well on the way towards a unified system of higher education. Hopes that an election later in the year will bring a change of course, probably misplaced, are unlikely to be fulfilled. But nobody can guess what the consequences will be except that they will be profound.

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Maddox, J. The Dawkinsization of Australia. Nature 343, 203–206 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/343203a0

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