Eager for sponsorship and favour, Australian universities are
handing out
honorary degrees left, right and centre, not only to those politicians
ruthless and pig-headed enough to make it to the top of the maggot heap of
politics, but also to very rich persons and, god only knows why, to athletes.
Which is irking those who earned their degrees the traditional way; if some
meathead can get a doctorate for swimming or running really fast, how much less
prestige does that PhD you toiled for in poverty for six years have?