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Morning Mail: Trump seizes control of DC police; funerals for journalists killed by Israel; WA reef devastation

President orders takeover of Washington DC police and deploys national guard; record marine heatwave hits 1,500km of WA reefs

The Guardian - AU · Aug 11, 2025

‘Breaking down the walls’: the long journey towards Indigenous inclusion at University of Melbourne

Institution’s second volume of truth-telling reveals a process of reconciliation that has been ‘imperfect, overdue and then often painfully slow, but marked by stories of courage and hope’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 11, 2025

Law professor at centre of leaked email controversy claims University of Melbourne suspended him because of his political opinion

Exclusive: Dr Eric Descheemaeker also alleges Australia’s top-ranked university will sack him unless ‘restrained from doing so’, court documents show

The Guardian - AU · Jul 29, 2025

Separated men are nearly 5 times more likely to take their lives than married men

Breakups hurt. Emotional and psychological distress are common when intimate relationships break down. For some people, this distress can be so overwhelming that it leads to suicidal thoughts and behaviours.

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2025

Breaks forbidden, food instead of pay: one-third of young Australian workers exploited by employers, study shows

Study notes young people more likely to accept unfair demands and less likely to report exploitative conditions

The Guardian - AU · Jul 14, 2025

Australian envoy’s antisemitism plan criticised as ‘Trumpian’ over concerns changes could be used to silence dissent

Recommendations to remove funding from institutions or charities that fail to act on antisemitism are ‘deeply dangerous’, critics say

The Guardian - AU · Jul 10, 2025

Why Dr Paris uses her bare arms in the fight against Australia’s mosquito-borne diseases

‘For most of the ones I feed, I just feel a little sensation,’ says the University of Melbourne medical entomologist

The Guardian - AU · Jun 22, 2025

International students take notice as uni ranks tumble

Many Australian universities have taken a hit in their global rankings and a number are struggling with their reputations in the eyes of employers.

AAP · Jun 19, 2025

‘Wake-up call’ for Australian universities as 70% suffer a fall in latest global ranking

Australia still had two universities, the University of Melbourne and University of NSW, in the top 20 of the QS World University Rankings

The Guardian - AU · Jun 18, 2025

The Potter Museum of Art relaunches with the outstanding 65,000 Years, a Short History of Australian Art

In the late 1970s, when I was a fine arts student, the Melbourne University Gallery was just one room in a neo-gothic quadrangle. It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that the university commissioned Nonda Katzalidis to design a four-story concrete gallery on a narrow site fronting Swanston Street.

The Conversation · Jun 5, 2025