
Dr James Waghorne
University of Melbourne Historian, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
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Politics & Society
Opinion
‘What version of the past is promoted and what’s obscured?’
As the Yoorrook Walk for Truth travels through western Victoria, we reflect on the colonial pastoralists from that area who dispossessed Indigenous people while enriching our university

Politics & Society
Opinion
Why we are Walking for Truth
By partnering with the Yoorrook Justice Commission on the Walk for Truth, the University of Melbourne is re-affirming its commitment to ongoing truth-telling and justice for First Peoples in Victoria

Politics & Society
Truth-telling and re-naming is an opportunity to redefine our future
Physical education pioneer Fritz Duras had a distinguished career, but our truth-telling process uncovered another side to Duras that can’t be ignored

Arts & Culture
Universities can change names without distancing themselves from troubling histories
Removing a person’s name from a building need not mean the University severs its relationship with its past, instead it is an opportunity to redefine our future

Arts & Culture
In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began
An Indigenous-led book challenges the presumption that universities make only ‘good’ contributions to the community – confronting the University of Melbourne’s disturbing history

Education
Remembrance Day: Updating an incomplete record
Almost a century after the First World War, the University’s war records are still being updated with new names of those who served and died - and there may be more

Arts & Culture
The medical student who helped change Australia
Ismail bin Abdul Rahman’s graduation from the University of Melbourne sparked a cultural shift that contributed to the end of the White Australia Policy