ABSTRACT
This review of trends in university governance in Australia commences with the Federal Government’s reshaping of the Australian higher education sector, starting in 1988 and concluding 25 years later with the universities now part of a heavily regulated quasi-market sector. This period is chosen because of the ‘big bang’ events of the late 1980s in the universities’ domestic environment, which reshaped the field, and because of movements in the internationalisation of higher education that have occurred over this time.
