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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.

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.

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.

Medicine and Health Science Art, Culture and Society History and Politics
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.

Music and Performing Arts
Wilin Winter Intensive nurtures Indigenous operatic talent
6 June 2013

15 Indigenous singers will learn from the nation’s top performers as Australia’s National Indigenous Opera Company takes up residence at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts this week.

Medicine and Health Science
Melbourne researcher takes top prize
4 June 2013

Dr Aung Ko Win from the University of Melbourne, has been awarded the prestigious 2013 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research for his groundbreaking work on colorectal cancer.

Engineering and IT
New international water management research centre launched in China
30 May 2013

Water efficiency, food security and environmental sustainability will be the focus of a new joint research centre between Australia and China, officially launched in Beijing today.

Science and the Environments
Farm profitability in a food insecure world
30 May 2013

Agriculture and policy experts will gather on June 3 to explore research directions that will ensure profitable farming in Australia in a period of great change and opportunity.

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