Lemme count the ways: male (check); Phd (check); international recruit (check); preferably European (Italian, double check); scholar in some obscure area that has no relevance to the collecting strengths of the institution (Islamic Art, whoah, WA’s hit the jackpot - triple check that). De ja vu? Lemme further count the ways: male (check); Phd (check), international recruit (check); not European but gives the distinct impression that he was (no score); scholar in neoclassical taste (what the!) = Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Victoria, and what a [insert own opinion] he has turned out to be. Male (check); Phd (check); international recruit (check); not European but (was) married to one; scholar in antiquities = Dr Timothy Potts, ex-director National Gallery of Victoria (mmmm, I wonder what legacy he left at the Kimbell Art Museum - Sumerian (cough)). Is there no one in Australia good enough to head the AGWA? Is there no one internationally that is not a male Phd scholar specialising in some obscure area? I wonder if the WA powers that be did as a good a job as they think they did? Perhaps Dr Carboni will break the mold? Who know, but somehow I don’t see WA as really the place to spearhead the renaissance in Islamic art.