What they said ...
"Technology provides the means for the third world to join the first world. If we do not understand it better we will fall behind in our own intellectual, social and material development."
Alumnus Lord Alec Broers, 2005 Reith Lecturer, BBC Radio4, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1996 – 2003, former University of Melbourne Council member. Full transcripts at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2005/
"Here is a country which has shunned the notion of Gross National Product in order to focus on Gross National Happiness."
Ms Rinzin Wangmo, coordinator, Bhutan school health program and student of the University’s Master of Youth Health and Education Management program.
"The first thing to understand is that plunging fertility rates in Western countries don’t reflect what women want when it comes to motherhood; they just reflect what women are getting."
Dr Leslie Cannold, Fellow of the University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
"Debate needs to range beyond institutions and their interest. The argument needs lots of voices – not just ministers and vice-chancellors, bureaucrats and shareholders – but everyone who cares about higher education."
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis, Inaugural Melbourne Politics Lecture – October, 2004. Visit www.unimelb.edu.au/speeches/
"Why are they square? We don’t know, but at least now we are on our way to finding out."
Dr Mike Dyall-Smith, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, after University of Melbourne scientists, in a world first, successfully grew an unusual square-shaped bacterium – found in salt lakes – that has mystified scientists for a quarter of a century.
"An Irish-style presidency may provide Australia’s best model for replacing a fading monarchy without damaging our established Westminster style of representative democracy."
University of Melbourne Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Professor John Power, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, May 2005.
"To put it in crude terms, most Australians are interventionists when it comes to social justice and freemarketeers when it comes to wealth accumulation."
Mark Davis, lecturer in the Department of English, from his essay ‘Australian democracy now: notes toward a position’ in Phillip Adams and Dale Spender (eds), The Ideas Book (UQP, 2004).
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