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Taylor Swift’s Impact Is So ‘Yuge That UniMelb Will Be Examining It In An Academic Conference

The University of Melbourne will be hosting Swiftposium 2024, an academic conference dedicated to Taylor Swift.

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A Melbourne Uni Is Under Fire For Hiring Non-Indigenous Academics To Lead Aboriginal Studies

The university is facing an "exodus" of First Nations staff amid allegations of systemic racism.

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‘Swiftposium’: Australia to host academic conference on Taylor Swift

Event at University of Melbourne in February will explore singer’s influence on gender, mental health and urban landscapes

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Melbourne University faces censure for hiring non-Indigenous academics to lead Aboriginal studies

Critique comes as university acknowledges it is ‘ill-equipped’ to deal with allegations of institutional racism and admits ‘as an organisation we have to do better’

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How one student forced the government to admit the economic risks of climate change

Last month, a significant victory for climate change was won behind closed doors. In 2020, Katta O’Donnell, then a 23-year-old university student in Melbourne, launched a world-leading class action lawsuit against the Commonwealth government.

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Virtual reality is helping Olkola Traditional Owners get back on Country

The Olkola people from Queensland’s very remote Cape York Peninsula gained their land back through a native title claim in 2014. Since then, they have undertaken land management using traditional fire techniques, habitat protection and restoration and cultural tourism.

The Conversation

How did Australia’s university system get so broken? Pretty much the same way as everything else

We live amid the wreckage of formerly treasured institutions and services, despoiled by decades of marketisation and neglect

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Blue-light filtering glasses probably make no difference to eye strain – study

Researchers looked at the effects of the lenses compared with non-blue-light filtering lenses for improving visual performance.

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Scientific breakthrough uses mRNA technology to create a highly effective malaria vaccine

In preclinical models, Trans-Tasman research collaborators from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Ferrier Research Institute and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research in New Zealand and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Australia developed an mRNA-based vaccine that can effectively target and stimulate protective immune cell…

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Ghassan Hage is one of Australia's most significant intellectuals. He's still on a quest for a multicultural society that hopes and cares

It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia at a Melbourne conference in 1973. Ghassan Hage, Professor in Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, and currently visiting scholar at the prestigious Max Planck Institute…

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Nuclear power too expensive and slow to be part of Australia’s plans to reach net zero, study finds

Pipeline of solar and onshore wind projects could fall short of what’s needed, while carbon capture will be a ‘crucial component’, report says

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Intake to the National Institute of Circus Arts has been ‘paused’. Where to next for Australia's performing arts training?

The 2024 intake into the Bachelors-level degree at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) has been “paused”, reportedly on the grounds of financial viability and “strategic alignment” with Swinburne University, which has auspiced NICA since 1995.

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Smile! What are veneers and what do they do to your natural teeth?

It seems our perception of dental health and beauty has changed over the last 20 years or so. Social media posts, TV shows and films depict a perfect smile as being dominated by a broad pearly white teeth.

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Three Australian universities place in top 20 of QS World University Rankings

Universities of Melbourne, New South Wales and Sydney score high, as Australia ranks 11th worldwide on sustainability programs and research

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University of Melbourne vice-chancellor calls for free university education

Duncan Maskell says idea that education is only of private benefit to individuals, not public benefit to society must be reversed

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We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others

Australia is in its fifth COVID wave, which has been brewing since February. It has grown slowly so many people may have not realised it.

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Australia should follow Ireland's lead and add stronger health warning labels to alcohol

From August 2023, Australian beer, wine, spirits and pre-mixed drinks have to warn of the harms of drinking alcohol while pregnant. But they don’t have to mention the other harms of alcohol for the wider population.

Salon

The downside of a new trade deal

Is the effect of the deal effectively rendered useless due to its environmental impact — or lack thereof?

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Does the Fight Transphobia UniMelb campaign against a feminist philosopher violate academic freedom?

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…

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The connection between coffee and bees

". . . coffee farmers who restore patches of forest across their properties can nearly double their profits . . ."

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Chlamydia-like bacteria found in Great Barrier Reef, study finds

Researchers have discovered some coral in the Great Barrier Reef — one of the seven wonders of the natural world — is infested with a close relative of the chlamydia-causing bacteria. So, is this bacteria detrimental or beneficial to corals?

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Drag story time is a fun way for little kids to explore socially constructed gender roles

Calls to “protect the children” from drag performers and trans people assume children are, in fact, in need of safeguarding.

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Link between climate change, youth mental health concerns highlighted by new national survey

Young Australians are worried about how climate change will impact their future — and for many of them, that stress is having a tangible impact on their mental health, a study shows.

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Australian universities split on using new tool to detect AI plagiarism

Turnitin claims its device is 98% accurate but some institutions are concerned about not having enough time to make a decision

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What Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has meant for Russian students studying in Australia

Many Russian students in Australia have been wary of speaking publicly since the invasion of Ukraine but those who are willing to talk say Moscow's decision has had many consequences.

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