The Dean at Sydney University made a part time post doc (SA) who works in a low tier position at a low tier pension fund and a failed academic accountant (SVDL) joint Head of Department (HoD) of the Finance department 3 years ago. SA has never coordinated a course or presented at a conference. Both have weak research output. Multiple complaints of a toxic bullying culture under their ‘leadership’ have been ignored. SA and the Dean appear to be good friends. To legitimize SAs initial appointment as HoD, the Dean appointed SA to the spurious part time position of "Practitioner in Residence", the advertisement for the position never made public and he was the only applicant.
Sydney Uni are now advertising for a "Professor of Practice", because SA now wants to be a full time Prof. (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/en-au/listing/265538/professor-of-practice-in-finance/). No need to have ever supervised a PhD student, but you must work in industry but be a head of department, which narrows down to about 1 person in Oz that can apply.
Anyone thinking of joining save yourself the pain, practically everyone is looking to leave, the abuse of power is rife and the culture toxic. They are trying to drastically increase teaching load. There used to be a policy that staff do three deliveries. They scratched that policy and introduced a new one where the HoD allocates teaching at their full discretion – in theory you could be placed across 10 courses for a few hours tutoring on each.