Change without growth

Karmel’s appointment was indeed a coup. Announcing his acceptance, Crawford described him without exaggeration as ‘the leading figure in Australian tertiary education’. Educated at Melbourne and Cambridge universities, he had lectured in Economics at Melbourne before being appointed in 1950, at the age of 28, to a chair of Economics at Adelaide, where he remained until 1962. During the 1960s he was Principal-Designate, then foundation Vice-Chancellor of the Flinders University of South Australia, as well as Chairman of the Interim Council of the University of Papua and New Guinea and then its first Chancellor. He had contributed to numerous government