Last month saw the release of a report of the Review of Australian Higher Education, immediately dubbed the 'Bradley Report' after the chair of the four-person committee of inquiry, former University of South Australia vice-chancellor Professor Denise Bradley. The Bradley committee was established by the Kevin Rudd-led Labor Party government in March 2008 just three months after taking office. It had a broad mandate to address issues in the tertiary education sector and was expected to be the vehicle for implementing the Rudd government's much discussed 'education revolution'.