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Monash University’s Professor Mary Herbert with a colleague.

Healthy babies born to cutting-edge, controversial new three-person IVF technique

Eight babies have been born from a cutting-edge and controversial three-person IVF technique, Australian and British scientists have revealed.

  • Liam Mannix

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Monash University vice chancellor Sharon Pickering: “We can’t just rely on dialling things down.”

‘You can’t just turn it off’: Monash vice chancellor on confronting hate on campus

Sharon Pickering says universities need to do more than just dial down conflicts on campus when confronting antisemitism.

  • Chip Le Grand
Australia’s anti-cheating laws are facing their first test in court.

Five students were caught cheating. Now it’s gone to court in a landmark case

The Federal Court will hear an Australian-first case after five students allegedly used a major company to cheat on their work.

  • Daniella White
Lee Gordon-Brown today.

He disarmed a gunman at Monash Uni after being shot twice. Now, he doesn’t worry about little things

After being shot in his arm and leg, former lecturer Lee Gordon-Brown sprang into action to save others. As The Age turns 170, we revisit people who captured the nation’s attention.

  • Carolyn Webb
A structural image of LYCHOS, a plant-like protein discovered in humans by Australian scientists.

The ‘plant-like’ structure in humans that could block tumours

Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown link between plants and humans which could help in the treatment of cancer.

  • Angus Dalton
International students Vedant Gadhavi and Ayushi Patel at Monash University.

Labor facing growing resistance to international student caps

The Albanese government is planning sweeping reforms to cap foreign enrolments for 2025 – but universities and students are rallying in opposition.

  • Noel Towell
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Pro-Palestine protesters at a University of Melbourne rally last month.

Universities under pressure from MPs to adopt antisemitism definition

Jewish MPs want all Australian universities to adopt a politically contested definition of antisemitism.

  • Angus Thompson
Universities in crisis

Australian universities are under siege from all sides. Are they powerless in the face of political attacks?

The federal government’s use of international student numbers to slash migration puts universities’ business models at risk. Here’s why.

  • Daniella White
Student protests at Melbourne University and Deakin University.

Expulsion threats, defiant students and orders to leave as tensions rise on uni campuses

Melbourne, Monash and Deakin universities continue to grapple with defiant students staging protests over the war in Gaza despite requests to leave and dismantle their camps.

  • Tom Cowie, Melissa Cunningham and Alex Crowe
Students and supporters attend a rally protesting Israel’s war in Gaza at an encampment at the University of Sydney earlier this month.

Students have a right to protest. Peacefully. On campus. Universities must be defended

Calls for “intifada” are antisemitic, but it is not clear that police should end an entire protest in response to isolated criminal offences.

  • Alan Finkel

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