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Knowledge without wisdom
I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory…
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Revival: Knowledge without wisdom
It's time we once again started hearing the word wisdom on campus. (Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture. Original version.)
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The Fraying of Reality
Is a fake summer reading list a harmless AI "hallucination" or a glimpse of something more troubling: a culture slowly surrendering to the smooth…
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The Age of Bullshit
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Revival: Knowledge without wisdom
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Greater expectations
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The Fraying of Reality
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A 21st-century enlightenment
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Memento mori
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The Equity Illusion: Why Lowering Standards Doesn’t Help the Disadvantaged
Fairness is not about everyone getting the same outcome. It’s about everyone having a fair chance to reach their potential.
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Anzac Day
We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself.
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Campaign Speech by the Honourable Minister for Progress, Priorities and Posturing*
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Goethe, Faust
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Better Together
A pluralistic society requires citizens who can engage across differences, not just coexist in parallel worlds. If universities do not model this, who…
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The death of trust
Trust in vaccines is collapsing, fuelled by political failures, corporate greed, and scientific conflicts of interest. If we don’t act now, preventable…
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Ash Wednesday (Redux)
Humanity has more knowledge than ever before, but all that knowledge has not made us wise. We all need meaning and purpose in our lives.
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Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
It’s better to prepare for a crisis that never arrives than to scramble after one that does.
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Wiser Every Day
Wiser Every Day
Restoring the traditional virtues--honesty, courage, tolerance, loyalty, honour and patriotism--to education, medicine, and politics.
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