Lures and violent threats: old school cheating still rampant at Australian universities, even as AI rises

Experts say contract cheating is still highly prevalent at Australian universities, but most do not report data on the number of cases. Illustration: Victoria Hart/Guardian Design

Kane Murdoch’s job takes him, his colleagues and his family to some frightening places.

“A comment … threatened to gang-rape my wife and decapitate me,” he wrote on his blog in April. Members of his team and their families had also been threatened with violence as a direct result of their work, he said.