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The 2022 awards see work with climate change being acknowledged and a wife and husband team making the list. COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA Dr Alan Simon FINKEL AO, South Yarra VIC 3141 For eminent service to science, to national energy innovation and research infrastructure capability, to climate change and COVID-19…
Postgraduate student Xiyue Wang alleges broad failures by university in three-year imprisonment, while experts see more complicated reality
There was a time when the threat to academic freedom in democratic countries came primarily from the right. Today, however, most of the opposition to freedom of thought comes from the left.
Beijing is using dismissals, arrests, and a repressive new law to curtail students’ and professors’ rights.
Keeping discussion free May 15,2021 - Last updated at May 15,2021 MELBOURNE — Last month, the Journal of Controversial Ideas — of which I am a co-editor — published its first issue. The journal is a response to the shrinking boundary, even in liberal democracies, of acceptable discourse. It is specifically designed to provide a forum in which authors can, if they wish, use a pseudonym to avoid running the risk of receiving personal abuse, including death threats, or of irrevocably harming their careers. There was a time when the threat to academic freedom in democratic countries came pr...