Australian unis could not function without casual staff: it is time to treat them as 'real' employees

By Kathleen Smithers, Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Jess Harris, Associate Professor in Education, University of Newcastle
Nerida Spina, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology

This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling for ideas to “reshape and reimagine higher education, and set it up for the next decade and beyond”. A review team is due to finish a draft report in June and a final report in December 2023.

University working life may conjure up images of professors…

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