A provocation / Simon Robb and Elizabeth Bullen -- Can the arts and humanities survive the knowledge economy? : a beginner's guide to the issues / Elizabeth Bullen, Jane Kenway and Simon Robb -- The humanities in the knowledge economy / Stuart Macintyre -- The death of education, a sad tale (DEST) : of anti-pragmatic pragmatics and the loss of the absolute in Australian tertiary education / Greg Hainge -- The impossible being becomes (possibly) / Linda Marie Walker -- Choose technology, choose economics : the ethico-aesthetic obligation of the arts and humanities