A Faction Best Left Alone By Rudd

According to bookmakers, the odds have shortened on a Labor victory. It seems political punters have put additional money on the Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, following the publication of John Winston Howard: The Biography, by the academics Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen. Opinion polls, however, tell a somewhat different story.

Radical Plan For Ailing La Trobe

LA TROBE University plans to cut undergraduate courses and ask up to half of its academics to avoid research and focus on teaching under a radical bid to turn around years of flagging performance.

Authors Mine Literary Gold At The Treasury

WHEN Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen left Peter Costello's Melbourne office in Treasury Place last August, they knew that somehow or other they had just stumbled upon literary gold. Every non-fiction author hopes for juicy revelations, the shiny new fact, the stand-out quotation, and the two academics had just been handed them all by the Treasurer.

University Academics Face Axe As Elite Faculty Tackles Deficit

MELBOURNE University's prestigious arts faculty plans to cut dozens of staff to plug a projected $12 million deficit as it shifts to a US-style teaching model.

Call For Curbs On Unsocial Work Hours

ALL fathers should receive two weeks' paid paternity leave, and unsocial work hours should be restricted to preserve family life, a group of academics says.

Growth A Hostage To Great Divide

AUSTRALIA must change the way it engages with the world or its remoteness will undermine its economic development, a group of economists, academics and policy analysts has warned.