The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is conducting a public hearing investigating the University of Wollongong.

Alyssa White, the university’s former chief governance officer, testified at the ICAC inquiry, according to abc_au. Professor Corinne Cortese, whose research focuses on regulation and regulatory structures applied to accounting and corporate boardrooms, also appeared before the committee and said she was extending her research on corporate boardrooms and diversity to the university sector, as reported by psnews.com.au.

An academic who spoke to the inquiry said university councils across New South Wales are dominated by white people with corporate backgrounds, psnews.com.au reported. The NSW Government inquiry’s terms of reference require the committee to examine the crisis in the NSW university sector, including structure, powers, responsibilities, governance practices, reporting obligations and commercial activities of universities, also according to psnews.com.au.

John Dewar told his KordaMentha boss Henriette Rothschild in an email in May 2024 that Michael Still had said the university was being run in a way that would make it very likely to win work with the university, as reported by gdelt. Professor Cortese’s expertise includes teaching undergraduate and postgraduate accounting with a focus on financial accounting, psnews.com.au noted.