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One exclusive Australian institution is facing up to its deeply racist past while another backs away from it

The University of Melbourne and the South Australian Museum are taking starkly different approaches to addressing their toxic histories

The Guardian - AU

University of Melbourne cancels classes as pro-Palestinian activists defy orders to disband encampments

Protesters spend night in tents inside Arts West building at Parkville campus

The Independent UK

Crikey reader reply: Recent coverage of public housing misses the mark

Dr Kate Shaw hits out at Victorian Labor’s ‘sorry’ record on public housing — and questions Crikey’s coverage of the issue as well.

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University workers lose $159m in stolen wages

More than 97,000 employees in the university sector have been underpaid to the tune of $159 million, new analysis shows.

AAP

Number of Australians enrolled in bachelor degrees falls by 12% in less than a decade

Enrolments in bachelor degrees dropped from 934,000 in 2016 to 815,000 in 2022

The Guardian - AU

Uni Lecturer Adam Brown Jailed For 24 Years For Murdering Wife Chen Cheng At Their Melb Home

"It is clear you had an opportunity to stop, put the knife down and walk away from the argument. Instead you engaged in what you knew to be morally abhorrent behaviour."

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University staff strike over insecure work as 'anger and discontent' builds on campus

University tutors who say they cannot plan for their futures are among the thousands of university staff to walk off the job as part of a national week of action against insecure work and wage theft.

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Margaret Bowman obituary

Other lives: UK-born academic and writer who moved to Australia in 1959, becoming an expert on local government and communities

The Guardian - UK

Remembering Barry Humphries, the man who enriched the culture, reimagined the one man show and upended the cultural cringe

Barry Humphries began his career as a Dadaist. His street performances around Melbourne in the early 1950s foreshadowed performance art in Australia. He was the most daring student prankster Melbourne University had ever known.

The Conversation

Ming vast: the great Menzies myth machine rolls on

Our Sir Robert’s mysterious political collapse was essential to his later success. So why is a new pro-Menzies propaganda outfit so uninterested in the most interesting thing about him?

Crikey

Melbourne University academic suggests more play, less desk time could help kids learn better

Australian children spend more hours in formal school lessons than in any other country. Is it improving their education or just wearing them out?

ABC News

Meanjin, Overland and Australia’s cultural identity: a vivid history by Jim Davidson

Emperors in Lilliput is a masterful biography of two of Australia’s most impactful cultural publications and their founding editors.

Crikey

Melbourne Uni’s new anti-Semitism guidelines are an attack on free thought

Universities should never have speech guidelines. This one is designed to stifle criticism of Israel — a move that will have terrible consequences.

Crikey

Melbourne university first in Australia to take up controversial definition of antisemitism

International code adopted as part of ‘anti-racism commitment’ could be used to shut down genuine criticism of the state of Israel, critics warn

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Melbourne University hands over operation of U-Vet Werribee Animal Hospital to a private provider

The University of Melbourne will hand over operation of the Werribee U-Vet Animal Hospital to a private provider in 2023, while dozens of staff members have been told they will need to reapply for their jobs.

ABC News

Data confirms young people's pandemic struggles, but reflects relationship bright spots

A new report confirms what many people suspected — 2020 was tough for many, especially young people. But the annual HILDA survey of thousands of Australians shows it wasn't all doom and gloom.

ABC News

Why are millions of Australians still living in poverty? Experts say it's solvable

Experts say Australia needs to develop an official "poverty line", with at least 3.3 million people currently stuck in severe hardship.

ABC News

Melbourne University to 'dramatically' reduce reliance on casual contracts after underpayment scandal

Melbourne University's provost Nicola Phillips has apologised for underpayment at the institution and announced the university would overhaul its employment model and "dramatically" reduce its reliance on casual staff in response to the scandal.

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