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Is interdisciplinary higher education the Next Big Thing?
By Martin Davies (University of Melbourne) & Marcia Devlin (Deakin University)
Hosting the World Cup is like a Bad Divorce
Hosting the World Cup is like a bad divorce and FIFA’s lawyers are better than yours, says Professor Richard Tomlinson, Chair in Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning. After the fun you’re left with the costs and a sour relationship.
The role of activism in criminal justice reform
The following is the full text of the 2010 John Barry Memorial Lecture, presented by University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow Peter Norden AO on 11 November. The Barry lecture series has been presented by the Barry Family and the Criminology discipline in the School of Social and Political Sciences since 1972. A full recording of the lecture will be made available at http://live.unimelb.edu.au.
Making Human Rights Real: Transforming the lives of India’s poor and homeless
Founder of ASHA - an organisation working to improve the lives of New Delhi's slumdwellers - Dr Kiran Martin delivered the Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture 2010.
The end of Journalism as we know it - AN Smith Lecture 2010 by Annabel Crabb
ABC Online journalist Annabel Crabb delivered the prestigious AN Smith Lecture on Journalism at the University of Melbourne October 27. She described the challenges and opportunities that the move to online presents news organisations and journalists.
Climate change, China booms and Australia's governance struggle in a changing world
The following text comes from the 2010 Hamer Oration held at the University of Melbourne on Thursday August 5, 2010. The speech was given by Professor Ross Garnaut, a Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University.
The Privacy Imperative in the Information Age ‘Free for All’
Address by Hon PJ Keating for the Centre for Advanced Journalism, University of Melbourne
4 August 2010
"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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Professor Loane Skene on genetic research, embryos and the Australian context
Recently, The Age reported in ‘DNA first gives hope on genetic diseases’ (see here)that research by Newcastle University in the UK had shown that embryos created with two mothers may offer a breakthrough that could eradicate a host of hereditary diseases.
Professor Gerry Simpson on the 2010 British Election
Professor Gerry Simpson is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law at the Melbourne Law School, and is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In this piece, he analyses how the 2010 British Election could unfold.
You can read more about Professor Simpson at http://bit.ly/cWR9pj
Australian Aid: Improving, but Could Do Better - Op Ed by Peter Singer
Australia is still a lucky country. Our per capita income is higher than that of many affluent nations, including Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom. On the broader Human Development Index, which includes health and education levels alongside our material standard of living, we rank second, with a score virtually indistinguishable from that of the top-ranked Norway. We reside in some of the world’s most livable cities.
