The University of Notre Dame is, I think, the most geographically distributed university in the world. As Vice Chancellor, I divide my time between our campuses in Fremantle and Broome, in Western Australia, and Sydney, five and a quarter hours’ flight away, in New South Wales. I’ve been here a little more than four years – I arrived just before Covid struck – and it’s the ninth country I’ve lived in. But although it’s the furthest I’ve been from what I call “home, home”, culturally it’s the closest to home of anywhere I’ve lived. In the Australian Catholic Church, particularly, you feel the English and Irish influence.