Essays & reportage
17 October 2024
What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond
National affairs
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
Essays & reportage
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Essays & reportage
18 June 2024
When the personal shouldn’t be the political
National affairs
16 December 2023
The government has outlined its vision for skilled migration but it still has lots of colouring in to do
Books & arts
26 October 2023
A consummate account of Australian universities stops short of exploring the working lives of academics
Books & arts
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Essays & reportage
4 September 2023
With monuments to Alexander Pushkin being removed all over Ukraine, the arrival of a bust of the poet in Canberra gains extra resonance
Essays & reportage
19 July 2023
A long-forgotten experiment throws light on the challenges facing Australian education in the 2020s
International
11 July 2023
Despite an encouraging decision on voting laws, the US Supreme Court has continued attacking Americans’ rights
Books & arts
10 March 2023
A centenary history traces the fits, starts and tensions surrounding Melbourne University Press
National affairs
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
Essays & reportage
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
Books & arts
3 September 2021
The Chair’s portrayal of academic life has a blind spot
From the archive
4 June 2021
The pandemic has exposed longstanding problems in Australian universities. But it’s possible to map a way out
National affairs
25 March 2021
A unique medium for disseminating academic research is celebrating its first decade
Books & arts
24 November 2020
Books | A centenary history reveals how vice-chancellors have negotiated shifts in politics and policy
National affairs
15 October 2020
Is university governance getting in the way of a healthy higher education system?
National affairs
13 July 2020
Britain and Australia have reacted very differently to the pandemic’s impact on higher education
National affairs
26 June 2020
The government’s latest funding plan will reshape higher education
National affairs
17 June 2020
Calls for universities to reduce their reliance on international students ignore the incentives created by successive governments
National affairs
1 June 2020
Covid-19 has exposed deep flaws in the structure of Australia’s higher education system
Essays & reportage
5 March 2020
Extract | Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
Books & arts
29 October 2019
The scrapping of Sydney University’s professorship has great symbolic importance
Essays & reportage
15 October 2019
Is an opportunity being lost in the midst of the Chinese student boom?
Books & arts
7 February 2019
The goal might be the same, but each publisher finds its own way of connecting writers and readers
Books & arts
29 January 2019
Books | How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Books & arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Essays & reportage
24 September 2018
The Ramsay Centre is still seeking a home for its Western civilisation course, but the concept itself doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
National affairs
14 August 2018
Along with the vast increase in migration, most signs point to increased cooperation between Australia and India