Wiser Every Day

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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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Beyond diagnosis: building a mental health system that works
A landmark disability scheme was built on compassion, but captured by a “cash for diagnosis” culture. This is not just a budget problem. It is a human…
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The world is turning classical
The world is turning classical. Not everywhere. Not all at once. But unmistakably - and just in time.
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The Age of Bullshit
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Between Patience and Fortitude
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Revival: Knowledge without wisdom
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The Fraying of Reality
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Greater expectations
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A 21st-century enlightenment
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Between Patience and Fortitude
In an age of noise and urgency, the library is a quiet kind of miracle.
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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
In a world of “frameworks,” “stakeholders,” and “outcomes,” public language is losing its grip on meaning.
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Step by step, moment by moment, breath by breath
If nothing really matters, then why does it matter that nothing matters?
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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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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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