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Dr James Waghorne
University History Program, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
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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
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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
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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