The Melbourne Newsroom

The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre has awarded $40,000 in literary prizes to writer Robyn Davidson and radical feminist Aboriginal poet Yvette R Holt.

Dr Philip Nitschke, author of the controversial book The Peaceful Pill, will be among guest speakers at a seminar on censorship at the University of Melbourne this evening at 5.15pm.

Gareth Evans, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and ANU Chancellor will give a public lecture - “Battling Race Hatred, Conflict and Discrimination: A personal journey" – as part of Diversity Week at the University of Melbourne this Monday 9 August.

The prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize has been awarded to Perth-based artists Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont for their video artwork, “Gymnasium, 2010”.

Address by Hon PJ Keating for the Centre for Advanced Journalism, University of Melbourne
4 August 2010

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"Privacy in a broad sense is under attack these days on a range of fronts: electronic surveillance, terrorism laws, growing police powers, business practices associated with information mining and marketing, and new technologies.

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Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating will consider the issue of privacy in the age of new media in a lecture hosted by the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advanced Journalism next Wednesday 4 August.

The English language proficiency of non English-as-a-first-language immigrants, the role of language assessment in school education reform, and the increased use of on-line English language testing will be reviewed at a symposium at the University of Melbourne on July 15 & 16.

A new resource to address the "unacceptable levels" of prejudice against Muslims by Australian secondary school students has been designed by experts at the University of Melbourne.

Two short films by classmates from the School of Film & TV at the University of Melbourne’s VCA and Music (VCAM) are the only Australian films to have been selected for competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it was announced this week.

One of the University of Melbourne’s most successful music graduates, Benjamin Northey, is returning to conduct the University’s Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Melbourne Town Hall tomorrow Wednesday 28 April at 7.30pm.