Keywords: University Of Melbourne
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EDUCATION
- Erica Cervini
- 06 March 2025
Despite public fascination with ancestry, true crime, and historical podcasts surging, formal study of history is in free fall. With university departments shrinking and misinformation rising, historians face an urgent question: how do you persuade students—and the public—that history isn’t just interesting, but essential to understanding the present?
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AUSTRALIA
Pressed for time and under mounting pressure to diagnose, doctors risk missing what matters most. But as one GP has learned, the real work of medicine begins when patients are heard as people — and when their fears, grief, and stories become the starting point for genuine care.
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RELIGION
- Emma Carolan
- 19 February 2025
Amidst a rise in antisemitism globally, some in the Jewish community have raised concerns about echoes of historic anti-Judaism resurfacing within the Church. While Catholic leaders condemn overt hate, has the Church fully confronted its entrenched biases, or do old prejudices still affect its response in ways that go unnoticed?
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AUSTRALIA
- Sandy Toussaint
- 13 February 2025
In Broome, the work of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody uncovers not only personal grief but also the enduring systemic failures that continue to claim Indigenous lives. As the commission’s findings remain largely unimplemented, the question remains: why has Australia failed to meaningfully address the injustice of these deaths?
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AUSTRALIA
- Erica Cervini
- 05 February 2025
In 1940s Australia, neighbourhoods pulsed with neighborly connection — a stark contrast to today’s soaring rates of loneliness. As societies grow increasingly fragmented and isolation deepens, can that bygone era offer any lessons on healing our contemporary disconnection?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins
- 29 January 2025
As the news cycle fills with exposés of hypocrisy, from politicians to celebrities, we are confronted with uncomfortable questions: When should we hold others to account, and when should we accept the contradictions in ourselves and others? The answers, it seems, lie somewhere between judgment and grace.
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