The Group of Eight Universities is one of those honour society scams. You know, they create a group whose only function is to be prestigious, and whose prestige somehow rubs off you when you join. But you only get to join if you are prestigious in the first place, so one wonders... Well, it's a nice little scam they've got going if you ask me; if you didn't know already, UQ is one of, if not the, most prestigious universities in the prestigious university group.
The G8 (I don't know if it was the group itself that disseminated that little acronym, but considering its resemblance to the other G8 I'm going to guess yes) has cut funding for the Australian Literary Review, which it was apparently funding to the tune of about $336,000. You might be saying "How does this affect me, Leo? I am not a massive nerd." Well, it likely doesn't affect you that much, except as a symptom of the general decline of academia in the news media.
When all the words in the paper get replaced by alternating pictures of breasts and tragic victims of crime, you'll miss the Australian Literary Review and its inaccessible rhetoric. Probably.
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