The University of Melbourne is an internationally recognised, research-intensive university with a strong tradition of excellence in teaching, research and community engagement spanning more than 160 years.
Its outstanding performance in international rankings puts the University of Melbourne at the forefront of higher education globally. It is ranked number 1 in Australia by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 28th worldwide. Melbourne’s position as Australia’s top University has also been reaffirmed in the 2013 Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, in which it has moved up three places from last year, to equal 54th in the world and third in the Asia-Pacific.
The University is uniquely located on the fringe of the city of Melbourne’s central business district. It serves as a hub for the Parkville research precinct – one of the world’s leading centres of medical and biotechnological research – and is a vital part of surrounding neighbourhoods such as cosmopolitan Carlton.
About 50,000 of the best and brightest students from around the globe come to study at the University of Melbourne.
Australia's parliament has become more family-friendly in the last decade, but women with families are still finding it tough. Other democracies can provide some inspiration.
Chemicals poured down the sink or pumped into the atmosphere can eventually end up in the groundwater, which means less available fresh water for us to use.
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While making small volumes of pure water in a lab is possible, it’s not practical. The reaction is expensive, releases lots of energy, and can cause really massive explosions.
Il est logique que votre humeur commence à chuter à la quarantaine.
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S'il y a des raisons de penser que la crise de la quarantaine existe, les malaises survenant à cette période auraient pu se produire aussi bien avant qu’après cet « âge mûr » difficile à cerner.
Financial well-being isn’t always where you expect to find it, in part it depends on attitude.
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Tres investigadores de Australia y Países Bajos se han adentrado en el mundo de las cadenas de venta de túnidos para descubrir que la inmensa mayoría hace negocio gracias a suministradores surasiáticos que explotan a sus trabajadores sin ningún tipo de miramiento.
The latest figures put Australia near the top when it comes to company tax collections, even though our total tax take isn’t particularly high.
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On one measure our company tax rate is the third-highest, but we like it that way because it allows us to give big tax refunds to local shareholders, many of them retirees.
We don’t need to put the same effort into making the conversation polite or interesting when we’re talking to a chatbot.
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Chatbots and virtual personal assistants are becoming an integral part of our daily lives. They could change how we talk to each other, and how we relate to ourselves.
The economics of countries in the Indian Ocean region are rapidly growing.
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Banyak orang tua memutuskan untuk memiliki anak kedua dengan harapan mengurus anak kedua akan tidak semerepotkan anak pertama. Namun penelitian terbaru menunjukkan bahwa anggapan ini ternyata salah.
In his Quarterly Essay, Smee laments the erosion of ‘inner life’ thanks to digital technology.
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Smee insists that the rich and intense visions of artists such as Cézanne or Chekhov are increasingly lost to us.
Tracking the journey of tuna from the seas around Thailand to Australian supermarket shelves shows modern slavery is a pervasive problem.
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The mixed messages around children, food and weight - not to mention sophisticated marketing - can leave parents perplexed. But there are ways to wade through it all and find healthy choices.
Pill testing is a rare opportunity to speak to drug users about their drug use.
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There's good evidence to suggest a midlife crisis exists, though it's hard to define what the midlife is. And perhaps crises that occur during midlife might equally have occurred before or after.
Théroigne en « amazone écarlate de l'Histoire, par Auguste Raffet.
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Cette femme si souvent décriée en son temps voulait étendre les droits des femmes, avant qu'un épisode tragique ne la brise.
The family of Hop Lin Jong (who is pictured on the far left) at the wedding of her daughter, Ruby (third from right) in 1924. Ruby was murdered by her husband the following year.
Hop Lin Jong's arrival in Western Australia in 1901 was remarkable only because she was Chinese. Her life might have passed in obscurity if not for the murder of her daughter in 1925.
Augustus was Rome’s first emperor.
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Augustus's long line of high-profile admirers see him as a great statesman who brought peace to a Roman Republic long afflicted by civil wars. But how admirable was he, really?
A plaque on a house in St Petersburg that says: ‘Here the writer Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya wrote Sophia Petrovna, a story about the Great Terror 1936-1938’.
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Persecuted by Stalin, writers Lydia Chukovskaya and Anna Akhmatova endured threats, cold and starvation. And in an epic feat, Lydia memorised the poems of her friend that were too dangerous to commit to paper.