The University of Newcastle has announced the name of its new student accommodation in the heart of Newcastle – Muloobinba House – honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture.

While artificial intelligence can help archaeologists, it can also spread pseudoscientific claims and false histories, stripping Indigenous knowledge of context, consent and community control, say…

Pauline Hanson’s plan to put the ABC behind a paywall threatens decades of shared Australian culture, writes Michael Gibbons.

Australians are becoming increasingly lonely and socially isolated, according to new University of Sydney research that found rates of social isolation nearly doubled over the past 23 years.…

While curriculum reform is relatively easy to announce, changing what happens in classrooms is much harder.

A law passed in Victoria in 1886 left aftershocks felt across Australia today. Yet few white people have ever heard of it

A $10 million Australian Government campaign celebrating inspirational teachers risked overlooking the workplace conditions driving […]

First Nations ranger groups working in protected areas such as national or marine parks identified illegal commercial fishing as a major concern for the Northern Territory’s green turtle populations,…

Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought

Polling suggests Australians are no longer so confident in their sense of unity — but they still aren’t willing to stand alone.

Unis have always had academic misconduct processes in place. But the impact of these experiences on students’ wellbeing has been mostly anecdotal.

One Nation has today joined Labor and the Coalition in a political race to the bottom on international students, revealing plans to dramatically cut student visas and do lasting damage to one of…

Richard Flanagan is a natural raconteur. While some of his essays seethe with anger, his passion for literature is infectious.

The 2026 National Student Safety Survey has opened across Australia’s universities, giving more than 1.2 million eligible students a confidential opportunity to share their experiences and…

To understand the surge of the far-right, look at nationalism, authoritarianism and populism — and how much they already exist in Australia, says Dr Ibolya Losoncz.

Whatever the outcome, it will be far more consequential than the existence of the White Australia Party.

Almost two decades after it was recorded, a lost interview with Gough Whitlam outlines his views on defence, immigration and the Catholic education system.

Shaun Tan’s groundbreaking graphic story, The Arrival, counters the dangerous fantasy of a homogeneous (white) Australia – and invites us to inhabit the other.

A new survey led by The Australian National University (ANU) is inviting multilingual Australians to help researchers build a more complete picture of the languages spoken and signed across the…

In the age of Trump, Australia’s allyship with the US is in question. Is it still feasible to claim that America is the guardian of global order?

Published in The Australian Financial Review (19 August 2026)

Sales by a WA auctioneer of Nazi memorabilia are raising questions about whether hate laws passed by the federal parliament in 2024 are actually effective.

After a series of scandals, the Northern Territory's only university will soon be forced to prove its taxpayer funding is having positive outcomes for students.

Young people more likely to hold hostile attitudes towards women, study finds

In 1926, the car industrialist Henry Ford announced his factories would be moving to a five-day working week with two consecutive days off for workers. It marked the birth of the weekend as we know…

26 August 2026 | Universities Australia Chair Professor Carolyn Evans

Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of My Brilliant Career.

Maitland city council has condemned an art exhibit challenging the 150-year-old figure, which the artist says ‘does not represent Black skin with any dignity’

Universities Australia congratulates Professor Mark Rose AM on his appointment as First Nations Commissioner of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC).

History is just gossip that was good enough to write down.That is the ethos of Macquarie University Associate Professor Leigh Boucher and the genesis of his new ABC project, The Dead Can’t Sue.The…

Faculty of Arts students at the University of Melbourne will benefit from one of the most generous undergraduate scholarships in Australia through the establishment of the Ramsay Centre for Western…

On August 2 1945, Australia’s first Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell gave a speech in parliament that The Museum of Australian Democracy described in an article titled “Arthur Calwell and the gift…

The RMIT Australian Screen Research Collection (ASRC) is fast emerging as a leading institution for Australia’s most significant film archives.

As the cost of a university degree increases, the traditional value of a tertiary education is under pressure.

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Australia’s Census has a complicated history with Indigenous peoples. One major issue is an ongoing undercount of First Nations people.

South Australia's largest federal electorate will be renamed in honour of an Aboriginal leader. Experts say it is also the state's most likely to fall to One Nation.

Would popular engagement and consent lead to better government?

The unexpected rise of the right-wing populist, anti-immigration One Nation party in the polls, helped by leader Pauline Hanson’s relationship with mining

On the edge of a tiny village in northern France, a team of archaeologists are digging through ground that was fought for, and won, by the sacrifice of Australian soldiers.

Universities Australia acknowledges the Australian Government’s response to the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia’s National Response to Islamophobia and its decision to implement a number of the…

The changes come just weeks after the US threatened new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries – including Australia – for inaction on slave labour.

Evidence of ancient burnt grasses unearthed in a Victorian cave suggest the old ancestors of the GunaiKurnai people used the cave for fire rituals during the Ice Age.

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Central Queensland University signs an enforceable undertaking to repay more than a thousand staff members who were affected by underpayments that date back to the 2012 enterprise agreement.

Holistic approach to care which preserves children’s identities part of Minns government reforms to broader child protection system

Universities Australia supports the Australian government’s new anti-racism and governance standards, which mark an important step in strengthening Australia’s higher education sector and build on…

Police were told of unspecified threats before the 26 January rally but did not meet with organisers until after, parliamentary inquiry into racism told