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Ramsay Centre

April 2024

Michael Traill: “I do have a sense that if a broader segment of the population understood those issues, then perhaps the result could have been different.”

Biggest donor to Yes campaign has no regrets

The Paul Ramsay Foundation donated $7 million to the failed Voice referendum. The amount of cash “felt appropriate then” and still does now, says its chairman.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

July 2021

The architecture of the past tells us a about our humanity, says Margot Holbert.

First Ramsay scholars: Looking to the past to understand the future

Margot Holbert, one of 20 inaugural Ramsay postgraduate scholars, has no truck with modernism. It’s classicism all the way.

  • Julie Hare

August 2020

Ramsay Centre bucks the trend on spending on university study

The new post-graduate scholarships are being launched at a time when university budgets are shrinking, especially for studying humanities.

  • Robert Bolton

May 2020

Marcus Blackmore's luxury home in Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches.

Blackmores steadies the ship

The largest shareholder in Australia's biggest vitamins company is positioning for the future on many fronts.

  • Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz

August 2019

Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation chief executive Simon Haines says UQ was a good match for $50m deal.

Ramsay Centre signs $50m deal with UQ

Ramsay Centre's course on Western civilisation will be offered at the University of Queensland from next year.

  • Mark Ludlow

June 2019

"I'm on the left. But I'm on a different part of the left. It is getting harder for reasonable and fair minded people to support the left." Helen Pluckrose, critic of grievance studies.

The academic hoax with a serious purpose

Academic Helen Pluckrose helped mastermind a massive hoax to prove that universities have become hostage to "grievance studies".

  • Robert Bolton

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