»For the first time in Australian history, younger generations are forecast to have a lower standard of living than their parents. People across the country know about the cost-of-living crisis and the housing #affordability crisis.« https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/05/australia-is-showing-how-a-rich-country-gets-poorer

»A row over academic influence is brewing at one of Australia’s top universities as the #University of Melbourne holds secret talks over a partnership with a controversial philanthropic program.« https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-s-about-influence-melbourne-uni-row-breaks-out-over-scholarships-from-ramsay-centre-20260506-p5zub6.html

»New research led by Flinders University argues thick tooth enamel helped #kangaroos chart an unconventional evolution story, compared to the animals of other continents.« https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/05/04/kangaroos-reveal-upside-down-evolution/

»One in four #humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals.« https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/04/hecs-student-loan-humanities-students-australia-25-years

»After European colonisation, much of the Indigenous land management stopped. Since then, plant life in many parts of Australia has changed, exacerbating the risk and impact of wildfires.« #FirestickFarming #FirstNations https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2026/lake-mud-reveals-7000-years-of-kangaroo-islands-complex-firehistory.php

»A new paper from RMIT University and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) is urging #universities around the world to fundamentally reevaluate their purpose, arguing that higher education institutions have a critical and largely untapped role to play in addressing the global environmental and social crises now facing humanity.« https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2026/may/living-universities-paper-launch

»A key narrative of the white supremacist, anti-Indigenous racism in Australia is that the white man created Australia [...]. The 60,000-plus years of Aboriginal history is very inconvenient.« https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/world/asia/australia-indigenous-aboriginal-welcome-to-country.html

»The two competing points of view are subduction, when two tectonic plates meet and the denser one gets pushed underneath the other and sinks into the Earth, and non-subduction, when hot material from deep within the Earth rises upwards and melts or large meteorites impact and melt Earth’s crust.« https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/new-insight-into-formation-of-ancient-continents

»The study found that while opposition candidates typically benefit from using negative sentiment to highlight problems and mobilise voter dissatisfaction, female candidates appear less able to deploy these tactics without public backlash.« https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/female-candidates-punished-for-negative-language-on-the-campaign-trail,-new-study-finds

»Anglophone #universities have contributed to their own image problems by failing to perform at the level warranted by their privileged autonomy, according to a vice-chancellor with leadership history in three countries.« #HE https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-lose-respect-they-gain-autonomy-says-exiting-v-c