The global challenge of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals present a framework of opportunities, in which universities must respond to the demands of a sustainable social organisation by addressing the issues of quality education, the participation and inclusion of different sectors, and the need to promote university social responsibility. In response to this situation, we examine three experiences that highlight the reorganisation demanded at each of the three organisational levels: (1) Macro: the need for cooperation between different universities in Chile’s “macrocampus”; (2) Meso: the organisation and running of faculties in light of the challenges to renew curriculums with the experience implemented by the Social Sciences Faculty of Pablo de Olavide University in Spain; and, (3) Micro: the integration of students and commitment to the needs of the social surroundings, with the E-QUIPU experience implemented at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) in Peru. The report we present is based on a case study, and the findings and conclusions lead us to propose a new holistic-organisational paradigm to facilitate the sustainability of universities. The results of the restructuring allowed us to conduct a meta-evaluation of the sustainability of organisations within a problematic situation (COVID-19), which tested the results of the restructuring objective of Cybersociety.

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This paper examines the attempts of recent Federal governments to cope with the economic and political problems presented by medical benefits abuse under Medicare. Despite an intensive five-year parliamentary inquiry in the early 1980s, ongoing discussions with the medical profession, and an array of separate legislative and regulatory packages, medical fraud and overservicing has not been effectively contained. Indeed, while successive governments and the medical profession appear to be actively concerned with the problem, the available evidence strongly suggests that it has continued to expand, and remains particularly noticeable in the area of pathology services. The official response is that governments are doing as much as is legislatively and practically possible to minimise the extent of medical fraud and overservicing, and that there will always be ‘a few bad apples’ within the medical profession to ensure its continuation on a limited scale. This paper argues, however, that the very means by which governments have sought to alleviate the problem—and especially their central dependence on the cooperation and expertise of the organised medical profession—have not only exacerbated the problem, but have also induced its institutionalisation within the Australian health care system.