Question: What do Newcastle, the recession 'we had to have', a Greenpeace call centre, the regulation of sex and working for the Vietnamese Office for the National status of Women have in common? Answer: They've all been influences upon the fantastically diverse career of Kate Gleeson; culminating but by no means over as an academic teaching law and politics at Macquarie University. Whip smart. Funny. And an exploration into the not at all ivory towers of the Australian tertiary education sector. Turn the key. Press play.