The authors want to figure out what happened in Australian post-secondary education over the last 50 or so years and to predict what sort of arrangement their great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, will encounter 50 years hence. To put this modest project another way: what in 2060 might a historian (assuming there are, then, historians) write about their topic over the previous 100 years? To help provide a testamentary source for a future historian, the authors have picked out three intertwined social and educational phases over the last fifty and-a-bit years, starting around 1957 and ending now. Then they make some guesses about the social order in 2060, and therefore about how Australian post-secondary education might be in that year.