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Past Op-ED |
31/07/08 Harry Robinson: Big, Bigger, Biggest
28/06/08 Harry Robinson Admonishes "Vanity Unfair"
28/06/08 Jan de Gier: Back to the Future
27/05/08 Harry Robinson Muses about a Super-Bureaucrat Turned Prime Minister
30/04/08 Harry Robinson Asks: "Where are the Head Kickers"?
03/04/08 Uwe Proske: How Important are Practical Outcomes in Research?
31/03/08 Harry Robinson Writes of Visions Grand, Plans Small
02/03/08 The Economic Kit and Caboodle -- Harry Robinson
29/01/08 Harry Robinson Asks for the Real Kevin Rudd to Stand Up
29/12/07 Harry Robinson Assesses Richard Pratt's Vision for Australia
24/12/07 Cathy Foley: What Does it Mean for Physics to Have a New Labor Government?
01/12/07 Peter Hall Offers Some Observations As Regards Australian Mathematics to Come
28/11/07 Harry Robinson: What Form Will the Rudd Prime Ministership Take
29/10/07 Group of Eight Publishes Election Policy Wish List
29/10/07 Harry Robinson: The Big, Bad Piggybank
29/09/07 Harry Robinson: In Case You Hadn't Heard, There's an Election in the Offing
18/09/07 Peter Hall: Oz vs the Richest Academic Kid on the Block
30/08/07 Harry Robinson: And Another Thing
22/08/07 Peter Hall: Comparing Four Pillars of Wisdom
28/07/07 Harry Robinson Reflects on Science and the Wordsmith
25/07/07 Yaron Ezrahl: Fools in the Public Sphere
27/06/07 Harry Robinson Hails the Word, but is There a Farewell in the Offing?
11/06/07 Tom Spurling, President FASTS at the RQF Forum
29/05/07 Harry Robinson on the Chequerboard of Polls and Polies
25/05/07 Peter Hall Assesses The RQF: Concentrating on Our Research Strengths
28/04/07 Harry Robinson Relays Some Hot Gospel for the Tertiary Sector to Meditate
28/03/07 Harry Robinson Looks at Pollies Through Dark Glasses: But There is a Moral
09/03/07 Jim Scott: A Sustainable Australia Needs Sustainable Science for a Sustainable Environment
15/02/07 A Plea From Harry Robinson: Arise Poor Cousins
24/01/07 Those Pesky Selected Statistics Keep Poking Through Like Weeds in Fallow Soil
25/12/06 Harry Robinson Reflects on the Year That Was
26/10/06 Addict Turns on His Own Kind: Harry Robinson Call the Media to Account
06/10/06 Max Whitten: Taxonomy, Biodiversity, and Their Importance for Australia's Economy
02/10/06 Ms Bishop Views Australia's Relationship with China
31/08/06 The European Research Council -- Close to Birth
31/07/06 Please, Miss, Define Diversity and Specialisation
18/06/06 How Should Universities Contribute to the Knowledge Economy...and the RQF
15/05/06 Harry Robinson Exhorts -- On to 2026
27/04/06 Peter Hall Writes that Diversity of Research is a National Treasure
30/03/06 $40 Million and Sinking -- The RQF Millstone Around Australia's Neck
29/03/06 Jeopardy & Hope: Harry Robinson asks Why is Higher Education on Short Rations
13/03/06 Harry Robinson: The Encumbering of Unencumbered Australia
05/03/06 Surely You're Joking, Ms Bishop - The Minister Goes to Science Meets Parliament
25/02/06 US NSB Publishes World Science and Engineering Indicators
30/01/06 Harry Robinson: Values and Minister Bishop
02/01/06 Harry Robinson: Entrepreneurs and the Ideas Men
29/12/05 Don't Make Science a Turnoff
30/11/05 Aye, But Who Will Pay For It
26/11/05 Robin Holiday -- The Fundamental Incompatibility Between Science and Religion
31/10/05 CSIRO Remains Up to Its Arse In Crocs
26/09/05 Snow Barlow: Nuclear Debate Must Focus on Waste
15/09/05 Peter Hall Discusses the Preferred Model for Australia's Research Quality Framework
26/08/05 Is There a Politician to Stand for Creationism? Intelligent Design? Science?
16/07/05 Change Can Equal Progress or Regression
28/06/05 Wendy Parsons: CSIRO Censorship a National Slap in the Face
13/05/05 Australia's Treasurer and the Future
24/05/05 US Science Present and Future: Views by Bruce Alberts and John Marburger
30/04/05 The Marketisation of Australian Higher Education - Where the US Leads Must Australia Follow
14/04/05 Peter Hall on Lies, Damn Lies and 223 Extra Statisticians -- The Innovation Report for 2004-05
31/03/05 Michael Lardelli Describes The Devil's Handmaiden to Global Warming
01/03/05 Is CSIRO Becoming a Costly Irrelevance?
01/02/05 Aussies Score - Harvard's President Makes Headlines -- Can His Grand Vision Survive
31/12/04 Aussies Score - No. 2 on Science Breakthroughs; No. 1 on Natures' Most Popular
11/12/04 Harry Robinson - Suppose and Suppose
30/10/04 The Reversal of Dawkinsisation or Just the Cheapening of the Universities?
28/09/04 Quality Review of ANU's Performance. It's Good but Should Improve
23/09/04 Universities Forgotten in the "Great Debate" - Peter Hall Comments on Responsibility
22/09/04 Don't We Wish - What Revolves in the Treasurer's Brain in the Dark Hours
12/08/04 What Price the Lack of Progress
19/07/04 Harry Robinson: Polls, Politics and Pollies
29/06/04 Business and University Collaborations
02/06/04 Max Whitten: CSIRO's Budget - Substance vs. Spin?
27/05/04 Basic Research & the Public Good - An Economic Prerequisite
17/05/04 The California Compact: Schwarzenegger & the Universities
11/05/04 Peter Hall: The Ides of May - On the Commercialisation of Science and Technology
15/04/04 Pauline Gallagher: Government's Review of Australian Collaborative Research
13/04/04 Dianna Kenny: Academic Promotion, a Faustian Bargain
12/04/04 Peter Hall: Math Matters
31/03/04 Australia's Research Infrastructure -- When Do We Want It?
26/03/04 Hail Nelsonus, Procurator for Education, Science and Training
01/03/04 Max Whitten: CSIRO - An Experiment Gone Wrong
17/02/04 It's Only Important If You Believe it May Cost/Win You an Election
10/02/04 Dianna Kenny: Do Australian Universities Really Need a Cain-ing
28/12/03 The Relevance of the 1954 Orr Letter to 2004 and Higher Education Reform
22/12/03 The Minister, Shadow Minister & Former Bureaucrat Weave a Tangled Web
01/12/03 Peter Hall: Challenges Facing Statistical Science in Australian Universities
26/11/03 AD Sen Cherry: The HE Support Bill is Not in Our Best Interests
10/11/03 No, Not a Script from Yes Minister but from a Senate Estimates hearing
22/10/03 Max Whitten asks: Commercialise CSIRO at any Price?
20/10/03 Why the Budget Surplus? - Harry Robinson Considers
30/09/03 Federation Fellows - Reviews - But Above All, Workplace Reform
26/08/03 Assessing Australia's 21st Century Innovation Capacity
19/08/03 No Eye for the Main Chance
21/07/03 The Systematic Dumbing Down of Australia
30/06/03 Is There a Party in Opposition with a Higher Education Policy
29/05/03 Mapping Science and Engineering Infrastructure and Beyond
23/04/03 Why Postgraduates are Pessimistic: Matt Hall
01/04/03 The Relevance of the HR's Standing Committee on Science
13/03/03 In Search of Priorities
27/02/03 The Nation's in the Very Best of Hands
29/01/03 The Change in Academic Work Picture Book
08/01/03 Benchmarking Australia's Investment in R&D
07/12/02 Australia's National Research Priorities - An Assessment
19/11/02 Roundtable for Young Scientists at Science Meets Parliament, 2002
15/11/02 Australian Science and the Maelstrom
25/10/02 The Minister and the Media Release
22/09/02 The Go8 Meets the National Press Club
08/09/02 Work = Achieving and Objective or a Result
19/07/02 Why Can't the Universities by Just Like Us?
15/07/02 Is Progressive Fossilization Really the Avenue for Higher Education to Follow?
18/06/02 The NSF's VIGRE Program
02/06/02 The Parable of the Vasa
10/04/02 An Upbeat View of Research and Development in Australia - Chris Nicol
19/03/02 An Unexpected Observation from a Reformist Former Vice-Chancellor
24/02/02 Courageous Decisions Are Not Notable Attributes of Current Australian Politics
25/01/02 Brendan Nelson Promises He'll Be A New Broom To Sweep Clean
01/01/02 Is "Following Close Behind" A Policy That's Good Enough
12/12/01 Not All Animals are Equal: Some Clone Better Than Others
21/11/01 If John Doesn't Care and Rupert Just Gives Lip Service
30/10/01 It's Not a Disaster If Nobody Cares
10/10/01 A Backing Australia's Ability Update
17/09/01 Not That Sort of Pyramid
29/08/01 A Visit to a Special Place
17/08/01 Basic Research, the Public University and the ARC
29/07/01 Growing Concern for Basic Research
16/07/01 The Creeping Decline of Our Intellectual Infrastructure
29/06/01 Could Broad Spectrum Research into Dragons be the Answer?
13/06/01 Who Needs a Nerd at the Bottom of the Garden
31/05/01 Exercising the Balance of Power
20/05/01 The Art of Persuasion-Time for a Learning Lobby
06/05/01 A Quiet Revolution in N.S.W? – Perhaps
19/04/01 Not All Carrots Are Equal
04/04/01 They Talk the Talk But...
24/03/01 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Howard
15/03/01 Don't Panic, It's Just A Matter of Definition
04/03/01 Two Revolutions – Shall We Miss This One?
21/02/01 When Dubya Meets Science
12/02/01 It's Education All the Way Down
30/01/01 Choose Your Discipline – Pick a Winner?
17/01/01 Australia's Creative Generation Must be Allowed to Influence Decisions