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Universities Australia chair Deborah Terry’s job description includes openly lobbying government, an approach that has its origins in the sector’s post-war financial crisis. Mick Tsikas/AAP

November 4, 2020

Universities in crisis? They’ve been there before, and found a way out

Gwilym Croucher, The University of Melbourne and James Waghorne, The University of Melbourne

A post-war funding crisis forced universities to take the initiative in making their case to the public. A new history explores how universities did it and the changes they brought about.

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May 5, 2020

Universities have gone from being a place of privilege to a competitive market. What will they be after coronavirus?

Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology Sydney; Gwilym Croucher, The University of Melbourne, and James Waghorne, The University of Melbourne

This essay explores the way the social contract between universities, society and the state has changed over the course of the 20th century. And how generations of students paid and benefited.

The war spurred surgeons to develop new techniques, such as traction splints and blood transfusions. from shutterstock.com

April 23, 2019

A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia

James Waghorne, The University of Melbourne and Kate Darian-Smith, University of Tasmania

The first world war spurred a host of developments in the fields of science, medicine and architecture. Alongside these came new qualifications and professions, such as physiotherapy.

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