The University of Melbourne has placed an unprecedented gag on Victorian College of the Arts staff members talking to the media, with Senior staff members currently locked in a battle with the University over reforms stemming from the introduction of the controversial Melbourne Model.
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John Howard on the good, the bad and the well-read
In yesterday’s lecture on ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ of Australia’s media, ex-PM John Howard warned of the importance of a “sceptical” media.
The University of Melbourne’s gender blindspot
The University of Melbourne has been denied a place on a Federal Government equal opportunity list designed to promote the advancement of women.
Davis: Cutting to keep Melbourne University sound
The University remains in the black, but must slow future increases in spending to ensure its long-term viability is not compromised, writes Glyn Davis, the University’s Vice Chancellor, in an email to staff.
Melbourne University’s ‘model’ provost departs
Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has resigned. What’s the story? asks one Crikey reader.
Rupert’s minions and the gentle art of self censorship
It seems Bruce Dover’s book Rupert’s Adventures in China won’t be reviewed in the mogul’s local newspapers, writes Margaret Simons.
Tips and rumours
NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor entertained 90 guests, mainly developers, at the Art Gallery of NSW the other evening. Fainting with greed, the guests staggered out of their limousines to have Christmas drinks with the State’s planning supremo. Questions being asked around town are: who paid for the lavish reception and did Sartor, who is […]
We have a decade, tops, to save the planet
A new Australian study released just days before the fourth IPCC report contends that the evidence of global warming in the last 12 months has increased beyond anyone’s predictions. And taking into account these latest discoveries, we have 5- 10 years to mitigate the effects, but we have to start making big changes now.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Richard Pratt’s honorary Doctorate in Law from Melbourne Uni is a qualification that presumably gives him unusual insight into these thoughts from ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel on the operation of cartels, a ”form of theft … little different from classes of corporate crime that already attract criminal sentences”.
Tips and rumours
The word about La Trobe is that Robert Manne will be one of the members of an “independent” review committee into the NT Emergency Legislation should Rudd win office. Exponents of this rumour point to Manne’s recent apologist piece in the Monthly, in which he is wholly uncritical of Labour’s endorsement of the legislation. Last […]
Tips and rumours
Cook latest: Sam Witheridge, that well known numbers man for the Liberal Party left, was seen having a cosy head to head with none other than Labor Party member Tony Albanese MP. I know the polls are bad Sam but not that bad. Were they swapping recipes? Sharing a love of socialism or perhaps it […]
The sad sidelining of indigenous history
The cancellation of indigenous history subjects at Melbourne University is part of a broader issue in which history perceived as “alternative” is not prioritized and therefore side-lined or omitted – to the detriment of a broad education for students and history in general at the university, writes Gabriella Haynes.
History whitewash at the University of Melbourne
The History Department at the University of Melbourne must be desperately hoping that John Howard’s election-driven sudden interest in Aboriginal children will keep media attention distracted from their own indigenous scandal.
