November 2024
Inside the Birdcage at Flemington’s Derby Day
With Tabcorp focusing on customers and Lexus on models, Crown’s marquee reigned supreme as the best people-spotting location of the day.
September 2024
Albo keeps it in the family at the AFL commissioner’s lunch
You can’t buy a ticket to Aussie rules’ most exclusive grand final function, so there are few better tests of relevance than trying to score an invitation.
August 2024
Meet the economist turned accidental uni vice chancellor
Professor Margaret Gardner, the only vice chancellor to become a state governor, has been awarded this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
In face of disruption, unis offer scalable, powerful solutions
Universities are being disrupted, but their contribution to society is profound, as the winners of the Higher Education Awards show.
July 2023
Why the final act in Margaret Gardner’s current job is the perfect end
Victoria’s next governor is about to hang up her academic gown for the final time after a stellar 40-year career.
June 2023
Vice chancellor to vice regal: Margaret Gardner is new Vic governor
Australia’s longest serving vice chancellor is set to become Victoria’s next governor.
April 2023
Why tertiary education should be one sector, not two
An independent agency would free the higher education system to be the very best version of itself.
February 2023
Nicholas Moore pulls in top execs to help crack South-East Asia
Australia’s new south-east Asia envoy has created a brains trust with top execs from Macquarie, Australia Post and Monash University.
June 2022
Nation heeds Monash University’s call to action
“We need change now more than ever,” said the university headed by Glyn Davis’ wife Margaret Gardner. A coincidence, surely.
March 2022
Kim Carr’s ‘singular’ contribution lauded as he exits stage left
Kim Carr’s prodigious intellect and curiosity was rare among politicians and the research and higher education sectors were the beneficiaries.
September 2020
Universities facing 'biggest threat since World War II'
The Group of Eight says money for research has dried up and the best researches will leave the country permanently.
What the virus is teaching us about education
The Australian Financial Review’s Reshaping Australia Dialogue showed how the COVID-19 crisis provides an opportunity to truly make education a source of progress for all.
August 2020
CEOs warn of massive job losses but big winners to emerge
Monash University vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner warns the impacts from the pandemic will be profound and life-lasting, with businesses slowly realising there is no return to 'normal'.
April 2020
Unis fear $12b hit as Chinese students stay home
More than $12 billion in Chinese student fees alone could be wiped off university income in the next two years given the "high probability" Beijing will instruct students not to start courses here in 2021.
March 2020
Victoria's virus fightback plan
The Victorian Treasurer has abandoned talk of a surplus and Premier Daniel Andrews reiterated it was a matter of when, not if, schools, universities, workplaces, public transport and major events were closed.
February 2020
New light on universities as they respond to the coronavirus
The health crisis is forcing universities to take new strategies and show their benefit to society.
January 2020
Top bankers among Australia Day honourees
"Dedicated, committed, selfless" is the Governor-General's description of the 1099-strong cohort of Australia Day Honours List awardees.