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Melbourne sets its sights on big public policy challenges
18 June 2013

The University of Melbourne will play an even greater role in the creation of real world solutions to the big challenges of our time, with the launch of the new Melbourne School of Government.

University Activities
New precinct to be a focal point for sustainability innovation
17 June 2013

The University of Melbourne is leading plans to foster an ambitious new precinct bringing together experts from across academia, industry and government to tackle some of the biggest sustainability and resilience challenges facing society.

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To Russia With Love
14 June 2013
The World University Games, this year held in Russia, kick off in under a month and the University of Melbourne will have four athletes there.  Selected as part of the UniRoos Australian squad, Barak Mizrachi and Tim Nguyen will be trying to push Australia into medal contention in table tennis.  
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Rhythm of the beat: The culture, meaning and meter of the tabla
14 June 2013
Dr Nadeem Malik takes us on a musical and historical journey with the South Asian percussion instrument, the tabla. Presented by Jennifer Martin.
Art, Culture and Society History and Politics
Remembering the manifesto that brought down the White Australia Policy
13 June 2013

A group of legal and political heavyweights — including former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser — will gather in Melbourne to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a landmark academic paper that led to the dismantling of the White Australia Policy.

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Cyber Security expert Dr Suelette Dreyfus explains the significance of the Edward Snowden leaks
13 June 2013
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Dr David Tittensor discusses politics and protest in Turkey
13 June 2013
Business and Economics
2013 HILDA report sounds the alarm on child poverty
12 June 2013

Australian children under the care of just one parent are three times more likely than other children to live in poverty, new data from Australia’s most comprehensive household survey has revealed.

Medicine and Health Science
Hearing loss clue uncovered
11 June 2013

Researchers from the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University have discovered how hearing loss in humans is caused by a certain genetic mutation.

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Children of same sex attracted parents score high on health and wellbeing
7 June 2013

Australian children of same-sex couples fared better on average than families from the general population on measures of general health and family cohesion, but continue to be subject to discrimination, interim findings of a University of Melbourne led study has found.