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Former prime minister suggests royal family ‘would have been so glad’ if 1999 referendum on becoming a republic succeeded

The University of Melbourne topped The Times Higher Education World University Rankings list for the nation, coming in at number 34 in the world. Find out how your uni went.

The COVID-19 public health information material on two critical Victorian government websites rarely met federal government accessibility guidelines, a La Trobe University study finds.

Right from the outset, it is clear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s agenda is very different to his predecessor Scott Morrison’s – from emphasising his commitment to fighting climate change to foreign leaders in Tokyo, to displaying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at his Parliament House press conferences.

Politics can be slow-moving, until all of a sudden it isn’t. As political scientist Simon Jackman says in today’s episode of Below the Line, “politics is very non-linear. You get these steady, secular trends in voter sentiment, and then you’ll have that breakthrough election where that will convert into seats”.

Government data shows 1,140 participants are stuck in hospital waiting for housing funding or other support before they can be released

La Trobe University nursing lecturers and students from its Shepparton campus have marked International Nurses Day by dressing up in vintage uniforms.

Channel Nine’s leaders’ debate on Sunday night may have been a “shouty, unedifying spectacle”, but Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese will do it all again on Wednesday evening on Channel Seven.

The federal government has been warning that the rising cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is unsustainable. More than a third of NDIS funding is spent on in-house support provided to 5% of NDIS participants with the highest needs.