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The '''University of Melbourne''' is a [[public university|public]] [[research university]] located in [[Melbourne]], Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria.<ref>http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/explore/about |title=About the University : Future Students</ref> Its [[Parkville Campus (University of Melbourne)|main campus]] is located in [[Parkville, Victoria|Parkville]], an inner suburb north of [[Melbourne central business district|Melbourne's central business district]], with several other campuses located across [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].
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Incorporated by the [[State of Victoria|Victoria Colony]], the University of Melbourne is one of Australia's six [[sandstone university|sandstone universities]] and a member of the [[Group of Eight (Australian universities)|Group of Eight]], [[Universitas 21]], [[Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University's]] McDonnell International Scholars Academy,<ref>https://global.wustl.edu/mcdonnell-academy/</ref> and the [[Association of Pacific Rim Universities]]. Since 1872 various [[residential colleges]] have become affiliated with the university, offering accommodation for students and faculty, and academic, sporting and cultural programs. There are ten colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs.
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The university comprises ten separate academic units and is associated with numerous institutes and research centres, including the [[Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research]], [[Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health]], the [[Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research]] and the [[Grattan Institute]]. Amongst the university's fifteen [[graduate schools]], the [[Melbourne Business School]], the [[Melbourne Law School]] and the [[University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences|Melbourne Medical School]] are particularly well regarded.<ref>http://theconversation.com/melbourne-university-regarded-top-in-country-but-reputation-isnt-everything-5874</ref><ref>http://www.australianuniversities.com.au/info/4/melbourne/</ref><ref>{http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/melbourne-tops-discipline-based-ranking/story-e6frgcjx-1226637055540</ref>
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==History==
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[[File:Melbourne University grand building.jpg|thumb|right|Old Quad, the original building of the University of Melbourne]]
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=== Foundations of the university ===
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[[File:The University of Melbourne, 1857.jpg|thumb|The original University of Melbourne building, 1857, Victoria Illustrated collection, State Library Victoria.]]
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The University of Melbourne was established following a proposal by [[Hugh Childers]], the Auditor-General and Finance Minister, in his first Budget Speech on 4{{nbsp}}November 1852, who set aside a sum of [[£]]10,000 for the establishment of a university.<ref>http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36869578</ref> The university was established by Act of Incorporation on 22 January 1853, with power to confer degrees in arts, medicine, laws and music. The act provided for an annual endowment of £9,000, while a special grant of £20,000 was made for buildings that year.<ref>http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10961588 </ref> The foundation stone was laid on 3{{nbsp}}July 1854, and on the same day the foundation stone for the [[State Library Victoria|State Library]]<ref>http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10961588</ref> Classes commenced in 1855 with three professors and sixteen students; of this body of students only four graduated. The original buildings were officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Sir [[Charles Hotham]], on 3{{nbsp}}October 1855.
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A law school was established in 1857 at the Parkville campus, following which a Faculty of Engineering and School of Medicine were established in 1861 and 1862 respectively. The university's residential colleges were first opened on the northern aspect of the campus in 1872, divided between the four main Christian denominations.<ref>http://our-history.unimelb.edu.au/timeline/ |website=Our History</ref>
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The first chancellor, [[Redmond Barry]] (later Sir Redmond), held the position until his death in 1880. The inauguration of the university was made possible by the wealth resulting from [[Victorian gold rush|Victoria's gold rush]]. The institution was designed to be a "civilising influence" at a time of rapid settlement and commercial growth. In 1881, the admission of women was a seen as victory over the more conservative ruling council. [[Bella Guerin|Julia 'Bella' Guerin]] graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1883, and became the first woman to graduate from an Australian University.
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[[File:The University of Melbourne.JPG|thumb|The view of the Melbourne Law School, Business and Economics, The Spot and Alan Gilbert Building.]]
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=== 1900s–1970s ===
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Early in the 1900s the university expanded its offerings to more utilitarian courses. In 1901 the number of students enrolled at the University of Melbourne exceeded 500 students for the first time. The university established the Diploma of Education in 1903, following negotiations with the Victorian Education Department. Despite the economic depression of the 1890s and the discovery of a significant fraud by a university registrar in 1901, the university continued to expand during this period. This growth included the construction of several buildings between 1900 and 1906. Such growth was facilitated largely through an increased government funding allocation, and the coinciding university led funding campaign. To accompany the training dentists received by the Melbourne Dental Hospital, a School of Dentistry was established to teach the scientific basis of dentistry at the university. Agriculture was established in 1911 following the appointment of the State Director of Agriculture as the first professor. During this period the university became a notable site for research, emerging as a leader in Australia. Following World War II the demand for higher education increased rapidly, and as a result became a transformative period for the university.<ref>https://brandhub.unimelb.edu.au/our-brand/brand-story |website=Brand Hub |</ref>
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In 1940, the first issue of ''Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand'', now ''[[Australian Historical Studies]]'', was published by the Department of History.<ref>https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-historical-and-philosophical-studies/our-research/publications/academic-journals</ref>
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=== 1980s – present ===
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[[File:Unimelb main entrance.jpg|thumb|Main entrance (Gate 10) to Parkville Campus of The University of Melbourne from Grattan Street]]
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Expansion of the university increased significantly during the 1980s and 1990s, as the university amalgamated with a number of tertiary colleges. In 1988 the Melbourne Teachers' College was brought into the Faculty of Education, and the amalgamation lead to the formation of a distinctly new Faculty of Education. The College of Advanced Education was incorporated into the university in 1989. During this period, more students than ever had before attended the university. The university had expanded its student population to beyond 35,000 students. Such amalgamations continued into the 1990s, with the Victorian College of the Arts affiliation with the University of Melbourne in 1992. This grew the number of campuses for the University of Melbourne, which would now include a new St Kilda Road location.
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In 2001, the Melbourne School of Population Health was established, the first of its kind in Australia, and continued the growth of the university. Work at the centre involved contributions from many disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to epidemiology. Health fields such as Indigenous, women's, mental, sexual, and rural health have all been researched at the centre. A significant change in curriculum was established in 2008. The newly created model for education was developed, known at the university as The Melbourne Model. In this curriculum model, students firstly undertake a general bachelor's degree before specialising in either a professional or research graduate course.
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The university's 150th anniversary was celebrated in 2003.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110210090414/http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/</ref>
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The [[Melbourne School of Land and Environment]] was disestablished on 1{{nbsp}}January 2015. Its agriculture and food systems department moved alongside veterinary science to form the [[University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences|Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences]], while other areas of study, including horticulture, forestry, geography and resource management, moved to the Faculty of Science in two new departments.
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Today over 8900 academic and professional staff support the more than 52,000 strong student population. The student population consists of more than 13,000 international students, from more than 130 countries.
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In 2020, on-campus teaching was limited to selected clinical placements as a result of social distancing restrictions imposed by [[Victoria State Government|the Victorian State Government]] in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19 pandemic]]. The majority of teaching was moved to online delivery during the first semester.<ref>https://www.unimelb.edu.au/coronavirus/update</ref> Like many other institutions and workplaces, university faculty members elected to use [[Zoom Video Communications]] to conduct live tutorials online.
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[[File:Autumn at The University of Melbourne.jpg|thumb|Autumn at the university grounds]]
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==Notable Alumni==
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=== Academia ===
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*[[John Behan (educationist)|Sir John Behan]], educator; Australia's first [[Rhodes Scholar]]<ref>http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070244b.htm ''Behan, Sir John Clifford Valentine (1881 - 1957)'', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 247–248. Retrieved 2008-10-10.</ref>
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*[[Geoff Bowker]], professor of informatics at the [[University of California, Irvine]]
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*[[Alec Broers, Baron Broers]], electrical engineer, former Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Cambridge]]
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*[[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]], architectural historian
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*[[Joseph Camilleri]], professor at [[La Trobe University]]
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*[[Simon Chesterman]], Dean of Law at the [[National University of Singapore]]<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/pressrel/1110/311011.php|publisher=[[National University of Singapore]]|title=Professor Simon Chesterman to be new Dean of NUS Law School|date=31 October 2011|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref>
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*[[Michael Clyne]], linguist
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*[[Greg Craven (academic)|Greg Craven]], Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
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*[[John Deeble]], Architect of Medicare Australia
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*[[Ding Dyason]], medical historian
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*[[Alan Ebringer]], immunologist, professor at [[King's College London|King's College]] in the [[University of London]]
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*[[Arie Freiberg]], legal academic
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*[[Germaine Greer]], feminist
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*[[Maria Gough]], art historian at [[Harvard University]]
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*[[Bella Guerin]], educator and activist; first female university graduate in Australia
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*[[John Alexander Gunn]], philosophy professor
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*[[Peter Karmel]], former [[Chancellor (education)|vice-chancellor]] of [[Australian National University]] and [[Flinders University]]
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*[[Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith]], Australian educator; landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
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*[[Arthur Lucas (academic)|Arthur Lucas]], principal of [[King's College London]] (1993–2003)
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*[[Robert Manne]], professor of politics at [[La Trobe University]]
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*[[Samaresh Mitra]], bioinorganic chemist, [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize|Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar]] laureate
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*[[Peter McPhee (academic)|Peter McPhee]], Provost of the University of Melbourne
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*[[Fulvio Melia]], professor of physics and astronomy at the [[University of Arizona]] and associate editor of the [[Astrophysical Journal]]
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*[[Bruce Mitchell (scholar)|Bruce Mitchell]], fellow of [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]]
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*[[David S. Oderberg]], professor of philosophy at the [[University of Reading]]
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*[[Richard G. Pestell]], Executive Vice President at [[Thomas Jefferson University]], Philadelphia USA
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*[[Abbas Rajabifard]], professor and head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the [[Melbourne School of Engineering]]
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*[[Michael Roe (historian)|Michael Roe]], historian
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*[[David Shallcross]], chemical engineer
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*[[William James Simpson|James Simpson]], [[Harvard University]] professor
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*[[Alexander Smits]], Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at [[Princeton University]]
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*[[Gillian Triggs]], international legal academic and President of the [[Australian Human Rights Commission]]<ref>[http://ussc.edu.au/s/media/docs/bios/triggs_gillian.pdf Curriculum Vitae Gillian D Triggs - [[United States Studies Centre]], University of Sydney] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426090812/http://ussc.edu.au/s/media/docs/bios/triggs_gillian.pdf |date=2013-04-26 }} pdf</ref>
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*[[Frances Valintine]], education futurist
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*[[Sally Walker]], Vice-Chancellor of [[Deakin University]]
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*[[Frank T. M. White]], Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, [[University of Queensland]]; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, [[McGill University]]
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=== Business ===
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*[[Graham Allan (businessman)|Graham Allan]], Chief Operating Officer, Dairy Farm
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*[[Leigh Clifford]], Chairman of Qantas Airways
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*[[Robert Champion de Crespigny]]
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*[[John Elliott (businessman)|John Elliott]], former President, Liberal Party of Australia and Carlton Football Club
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*[[Aubrey Gibson]]
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*[[Charles Goode]], former Chairman, ANZ Bank
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*[[James P. Gorman]], Chairman and CEO, Morgan Stanley
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*[[David Hains]]
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*Sir [[John Holland (engineer)|John Holland]]
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*Sir [[Brian Inglis (businessman)|Brian Inglis]], former Chairman, Amcor
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*[[Margaret Jackson]]
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*[[Robert Kirby (businessman)|Robert Kirby]], Executive Chairman, Village Roadshow
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*[[Ananda Krishnan]], CEO, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
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*Alwyn K.H. Lim, [[Certified Public Accountant|CPA]]
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*[[Hugh Morgan (businessman)|Hugh Morgan]], former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia
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*[[Rupert Myer]], director, Myer Family Company
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*[[Richard Pratt (Australian businessman)|Richard Pratt]]
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*[[James Riady]], Chairman, Lippo Group
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*[[Graeme Samuel]]
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*[[Karl Siegling]], funds manager
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*Lei Cheng Tan, Chairman, IGB Corporation Berhad
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*[[Evan Thornley]], entrepreneur<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/07/1025667089032.html</ref>
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===Community activism===
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*[[Julian Assange]], Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
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*[[Waleed Aly]]
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*[[Helen Durham]], international humanitarian lawyer<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life/australian-dr-helen-durham-breaks-glass-ceiling-at-international-committee-of-the-red-cross-20140611-zs4a9.html</ref>
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*[[Avery Ng]], Hong Kong activist
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*[[Tilman Ruff]], public health scholar and founder of [[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]] (ICAN), winner of the 2017 [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
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===Government===
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====Governors General of Australia====
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*[[Richard Casey, Baron Casey]], 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
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*Sir [[Zelman Cowen]]
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*[[Peter Hollingworth]],
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*Sir [[Isaac Isaacs]],  also former Chief Justice of Australia
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*Sir [[Ninian Stephen]], also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia
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====Governors of Victoria====
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*[[Alex Chernov]],
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*Professor [[David de Kretser]]
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*Sir [[James Gobbo]], also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
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*[[John Landy]]
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*[[Richard McGarvie]]
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*Sir [[Henry Winneke]], also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria<ref>Coleman, Robert, ''Above renown: The biography of Sir Henry Winneke'', South Melbourne, MacMillan Australia, 1988.</ref>
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====Politicians====
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=====Prime Ministers of Australia=====
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*[[Alfred Deakin]]<ref>Australian Dictionary of Biography</ref>
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*[[Julia Gillard]]<ref>http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/politicians/julia-gillard/index.cfm </ref>
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*[[Harold Holt]],<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography</ref>
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*Sir [[Robert Menzies]]
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=====Premiers of Victoria=====
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*[[Ted Baillieu]]
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*[[John Brumby]]
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*[[John Cain II]]
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*[[Rupert Hamer]]
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* Sir [[William Irvine (Australian politician)|William Irvine]], also a former Chief Justice of Victoria<ref name=irvine/>
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*[[Joan Kirner]]
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*[[William Shiels]]
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*[[Lindsay Thompson]]
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=====Federal politicians=====
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*[[Lyn Allison]], former Member of the [[Australian Senate]] and leader of the [[Australian Democrats]]
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*[[Richard Alston (politician)|Richard Alston]] , former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Kevin Andrews (politician)|Kevin Andrews]], Member of the [[Australian House of Representatives]]
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*[[Bruce Baird]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Maurice Blackburn]], lawyer and former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Neil Brown (Australian politician)|Neil Brown]], , former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Anna Burke]], Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[John Button]], former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Jim Cairns]], former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
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*[[Sam Cohen (Australian politician)|Sam Cohen]], former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Barney Cooney]], former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Mark Dreyfus]],  Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Gareth Evans (politician)|Gareth Evans]], international policymaker, academic, and former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[John Alexander Forrest]]
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*[[Petro Georgiou]], former Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Andrew Giles]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Ivor Greenwood]], former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Ray Groom]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives and [[Premier of Tasmania]]
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*[[H. B. Higgins]], former [[Attorney-General of Australia]] and Justice of the [[High Court of Australia]]
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*[[Greg Hunt]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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* [[Dennis Jensen]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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* Barry Jones, AC former Member of Australian House of Representatives and Parliament of Victoria.
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*[[David Kemp (Australian politician)|David Kemp]], former Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[John Langmore]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[William Maloney (politician)|William Maloney]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Richard Marles]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Peter McGauran]], former Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Kelly O'Dwyer]], Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Andrew Peacock]], former Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*Sir [[Arthur Robinson (Australian politician)|Arthur Robinson]], former Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Nicola Roxon]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Roger Shipton]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Bill Shorten]],  Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Bruce Smith (Australian politician)|Bruce Smith]], former Member of Australian House of Representatives
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*Sir [[John Spicer (Australian politician)|John Spicer]], former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Sid Spindler]], former Member of the Australian Senate
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*[[Lindsay Tanner]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Ralph Willis]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Agar Wynne]], former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*Sir [[Clifden Eager]] former President of the [[Victorian Legislative Council]]
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*[[Maurice Blackburn]], lawyer and former Member of the [[Victorian Legislative Assembly]]
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*[[John Bourke (Australian politician)|John Bourke]], lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[Thomas Brennan (Victorian state politician)|Thomas Brennan]], political journalist and former Member of the [[Victorian Legislative Council]]
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*[[Bruce Chamberlain]], former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
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*[[Robert Clark (Australian politician)|Robert Clark]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[Neil Cole (politician)|Neil Cole]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and playwright and researcher
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*[[Robert Dean (Australian politician)|Robert Dean]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[Frank Field (Australian politician)|Frank Field]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[John Galbally]], former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
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*[[Matthew Groom]], Member of the [[Tasmanian House of Assembly]]
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*[[Ray Groom]], former [[Premier of Tasmania]] and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
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*[[Tim Holding]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[Robert Wilfred Holt]], Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952-54
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*[[Trevor Oldham]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as [[Deputy Premier of Victoria|Deputy Premier]]
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*[[Herbert Postle]], former Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
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*[[Robert Ramsay (Victorian politician)|Robert Ramsay]], former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[Edward Reynolds (Australian politician)|Edward Reynolds]], former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[T. J. Ryan]], former [[Premier of Queensland]]
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*Sir [[Arthur Rylah]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Deputy Premier
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*[[Prue Sibree]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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*[[Oswald Snowball]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as [[Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly|Speaker]]
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*[[Alan Stockdale]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as [[Treasurer of Victoria|Treasurer]]
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*[[Shane Stone]], former [[Chief Minister of the Northern Territory]]
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*[[Richard Ward (judge)|Richard Ward]], former Member of the [[Northern Territory Legislative Council]] and [[Supreme Court of the Northern Territory|Supreme Court]] judge
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*Sir [[Henry Wrixon]], former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
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*[[Agar Wynne]], former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council<
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=====International politicians=====
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*[[Kirsty Sword Gusmão]], First Lady of [[East Timor]]
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*[[Ismail Abdul Rahman]], former [[Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia]]
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*[[Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali]], former [[Menteri Besar of Perak]]
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*[[Dato Sri|Dato' Sri]] [[Mustapa Mohamed]], [[Dewan Rakyat|Member of Parliament]] of [[Jeli District|Jeli]], former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
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*[[Baru Bian]], [[Dewan Rakyat|Member of Parliament]] of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
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*[[Raja Kamarul Bahrin]], former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
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*[[Mark Regev]], spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister
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=====Public servants=====
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*[[William Macmahon Ball]], diplomat
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*[[Jean-Pierre Blais]], Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]
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*[[Peta Credlin]], political advisor
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*[[Francis Patrick Donovan]], diplomat and jurist
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*[[Bill Paterson (diplomat)|Bill Paterson]], Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
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* [[Trevor Pyman|Trevor Ashmore Pyman]], diplomat.
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*[[John So]], Lord Mayor of Melbourne
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*[[Fred Whitlam]], [[Australian Government Solicitor|Crown Solicitor]]; father of [[Gough Whitlam|Gough]]
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=== Humanities ===
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==== History ====
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*[[Geoffrey Blainey]], one of the [[Australian Living Treasures]]
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*[[Manning Clark]]
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*[[Charles Coppel]], former barrister and historian
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*[[Sir (William) Keith Hancock|Keith Hancock]]
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*[[Stuart Macintyre]]
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*[[Michael Roe (historian)|Michael Roe]], historian and academic
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*[[A. G. L. Shaw]]
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====Journalism====
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*[[Tiffiny Hall]], journalist, author and television personality
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*[[Joe Hildebrand]], journalist, social commentator and news columnist
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*[[Christine Kenneally]], [[New York City]]-based journalist
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*[[Matt Tinney]], newsreader
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*[[E. W. Tipping|Bill Tipping]], former journalist, social commentator and activist
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==== Literature, writing and poetry ====
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*[[Randa Abdel-Fattah]], Australian Muslim author and lawyer
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*[[Russell Blackford]], writer, philosopher and critic
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*[[Vincent Buckley]]
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*[[Anna Ciddor]], author and illustrator
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*[[Helen Garner]], author
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*[[Kerry Greenwood]], crime writer
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*[[Germaine Greer]], feminist writer and academic
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*[[Jack Hibberd]]
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*[[Fulvio Melia]]
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*[[Gerald Murnane]], novelist and short story writer
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*[[Chris Wallace-Crabbe]], Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at [[Harvard University]]
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*[[Lynne Kelly (science writer)]], writer, researcher and science educator
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==== Philosophy ====
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*[[Samuel Alexander]]
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*[[Leslie Cannold]]
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*[[Raimond Gaita]]
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*[[Charles Leonard Hamblin]]
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*[[Frank Cameron Jackson]]
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*[[Graham Oppy]]
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*[[Toby Ord]]
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*[[Brian O'Shaughnessy (philosopher)|Brian O'Shaughnessy]]
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*[[Graham Priest]]
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*[[Ian Robinson (rationalist)|Ian Robinson]]
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*[[Peter Singer]]
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*[[John Tasioulas]], moral and legal philosopher
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*[[Nick Trakakis]]
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*[[John Weckert]]
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*[[Damon Young]]
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===Law===
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;Chief Justices of Australia
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* Sir [[Owen Dixon]]
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* Sir [[Frank Gavan Duffy]]
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* Sir [[Isaac Isaacs]]
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* Sir [[John Latham (judge)|John Latham]]
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; Justices of the High Court of Australia
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*Sir [[Keith Aickin]],
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*[[Susan Crennan]]
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*Sir [[Daryl Dawson]],
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*Sir [[Wilfred Fullagar]], former justice
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*[[Kenneth Hayne]]
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*[[H. B. Higgins]], former justice
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*Sir [[Douglas Menzies]], former justice
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*[[Geoffrey Nettle]]
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*Sir [[Ninian Stephen]], also a previous Governor-General of Australia
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;Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
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* [[Michael Black (judge)|Michael Black]], former Chief Justice
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;Justices of the Federal Court of Australia
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*[[Geoffrey Giudice]]
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*Sir [[Edward Woodward (judge)|Edward Woodward]], also served as a [[Royal Commissioner]] and [[Director-General of Security]]<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/judge-sought-social-justice-for-all-20100428-tsc0.html</ref>
 +
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;Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
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* [[Diana Bryant]], Chief Justice since 2004
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* [[Alastair Nicholson]], former Chief Justice
 +
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;Chief Justices of Victoria
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* [[Lieutenant General (Australia)|Lieutenant General]] Sir [[Edmund Herring]],, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
 +
* Sir [[William Irvine (Australian politician)|William Irvine]], also a former Premier of Victoria
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* Sir [[John Madden (judge)|John Madden]], also a former Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University
 +
* Sir [[Frederick Mann]], also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria<ref>http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/prize-winners/index.cfm</ref>
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* [[John Harber Phillips]], also a former Victorian [[Director of Public Prosecutions]] and Director of the [[National Crime Authority]]
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* Sir [[Henry Winneke]], also a former Governor of Victoria
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* Sir [[John Young (jurist)|John Young]], <ref>http://www.theage.com.au/national/traditionalist-faithful-to-spirit-of-the-law-20081009-4xlc.html?skin=text-only</ref>
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;Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria
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* Sir [[Kevin Victor Anderson|Kevin Anderson]] <ref>Anderson, K.V. (1986) ''Fossil in the Sandstone: The Recollecting Judge''. Spectrum Publications: Melbourne. 287pp. ISBN|0-86786-095-2</ref>
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* Sir [[Arthur Dean (judge)|Arthur Dean]],
 +
*Sir [[James Gobbo]],  also a former Governor of Victoria
 +
* Sir [[George Pape]]
 +
* [[Joseph Santamaria]]
 +
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;Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal
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* [[Chris Maxwell (jurist)|Chris Maxwell]]
 +
* [[John Winneke]]
 +
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==== Other legal professionals ====
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*[[Philip Alston]], international law scholar; former [[United Nations Special Rapporteur]]<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/SRExecutionsIndex.aspx\</ref>
 +
*[[John Tuson Bennett|John Bennett]], civil libertarian
 +
*[[Matthew Collins (barrister)|Matthew Collins]], barrister and Senior Fellow at the [[Melbourne Law School]]
 +
*[[Mario Condello]], lawyer; murdered during [[Melbourne gangland killings]]
 +
*[[Frank Costigan]], lawyer, [[Royal Commission#Australia|Royal Commissioner]] and social justice activist
 +
*[[Rowan Downing]], [[barrister]] and international jurist<ref>http://www.eccc.gov.kh/en/persons/judge-rowan-downing-qc</ref>
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*[[Frank Galbally]], criminal defence lawyer
 +
*[[Flos Greig]], first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia
 +
*[[Philip Lewis Griffiths|Philip Griffiths]], jurist
 +
*[[Francis Gurry]], international intellectual property lawyer and bureaucrat
 +
*[[Colin Lovitt]], criminal barriste
 +
{{div col end}}
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*[[Julian McMahon]], A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
 +
*[[Rob Stary]], criminal defence lawyer
 +
*[[Lord Uthwatt]], Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords
 +
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===Military===
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{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
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* [[Group Captain]] [[John Balmer]], World War II [[Royal Australian Air Force|RAAF]] bomber pilot
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* [[Major General (Australia)|Major General]] Sir [[Julius Bruche]], , Second Boer War and World War I [[Australian Army|army]] officer
 +
*Sir [[Samuel Burston]], army doctor and World War II general
 +
*[[Rupert Downes]], army doctor and World War II general
 +
*Sir [[Edward Dunlop|Edward 'Weary' Dunlop]], army doctor and humanitarian
 +
* [[Major General (Australia)|Major General]] [[Harold Edward Elliott|Harold 'Pompey' Elliott]], politician and World War I army general
 +
*Sir [[Neil Hamilton Fairley]], army doctor
 +
*[[William Grant (general)|Brigadier General William Grant]], World War I general
 +
*Sir [[James Whiteside McCay]], politician and World War I general
 +
*Sir [[John Monash]], World War I general
 +
*Sir [[Kingsley Norris]], army doctor and major general
 +
*[[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Philip Rhoden]], lawyer and World War II army officer
 +
*[[Ian Upjohn]], [[Australian Army Reserve|Army Reserve]] officer and barrister<
 +
{{div col end}}
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===Religious leaders===
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{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
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*[[Raymond Apple (rabbi)|Rabbi Raymond Apple]]<ref>Crown Content, ''Who's Who in Australia'' 2007 page 150</ref>
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{{div col end}}
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=== Sciences ===
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* [[Yvonne Aitken]], botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970<ref>Haines, C. M. C. ''International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950''; ABC-CLIO, 2001.</ref>
 +
*[[Elizabeth Blackburn]], awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Medicine in 2009
 +
*[[Margaret Blackwood]], botanist and geneticist
 +
*[[Kirsten Parris]], urban ecologist
 +
*Andrew Freeman FACS - Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)<ref>https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/hall-of-fame/HallofFame.pdf</ref>
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* [[Norman Greenwood]]
 +
* [[Cyril Seelenmeyer]] – VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of [[Military Cross]]
 +
* [[Harold Addison Woodruff]] – Professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute
 +
*[[Beryl Splatt]]
 +
*[[Shu Jie Lam]]
 +
* Sir [[Walter Bassett]]
 +
* [[William Charles Kernot]]
 +
* [[Diane Lemaire]], first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
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* [[Anthony Michell]]
 +
* [[John Monash]]
 +
* [[Elizabeth Jens]]
 +
* [[Ian A. Young]], senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of [[BiCMOS]] logic family and clocks for [[Pentium]] series microprocessors
 +
* [[Robert Bartnik]]
 +
* [[Keith Briggs (mathematician)|Keith Briggs]]
 +
* [[Danny Calegari]]
 +
* [[Robert William Chapman (engineer)|Robert William Chapman]]
 +
* [[Thomas MacFarland Cherry]]
 +
* [[Ian G. Enting]]
 +
* [[Greg Hjorth]]
 +
* [[Mark S. Joshi]]
 +
* [[Kenneth McIntyre]]
 +
* [[Brendan McKay]]
 +
* [[Samuel McLaren]]
 +
* [[John Henry Michell]]
 +
* [[Edward J. Nanson]]
 +
* [[Jonathan Pila]]
 +
* [[E. J. G. Pitman]]
 +
* [[J. Hyam Rubinstein]]
 +
* [[Hans Schwerdtfeger]]
 +
* [[Ian Sloan (mathematician)|Ian Sloan]]
 +
* [[Geoffrey Watson]]
 +
* [[William Parkinson Wilson]]
 +
 +
==== Medicine ====
 +
*[[Lilian Helen Alexander]], one of the first women to study medicine at the university
 +
*[[Ellen Balaam]], first woman surgeon in Melbourne
 +
*David Bowen, deregistered medical practitioner<ref>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/pedophile-doctor-out/story-e6frf7kx-1111119154522 Pedophile doctor David Alan Bowen loses medical licence for four months</ref>
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*[[Vera Scantlebury Brown]]
 +
*Sir [[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]], awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the [[immune system]] of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
 +
*Sir [[John Carew Eccles]], awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
 +
*Aditya Tedjaseputra, inventor of pain-free speculum.
 +
*[[Constance Ellis]], first woman to receive a [[Doctor of Medicine]] from the university
 +
*[[Jane Stocks Greig]], public health specialist
 +
*[[Janet Greig]], Victoria's first female anaesthetist
 +
*[[David Handelsman]], Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
 +
*[[James Lawson (Australian doctor)|James Lawson]], public health doctor and scientist
 +
*[[Helen Sexton]], surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
 +
*[https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/engage/alumni/community/obituaries/dr-rajaratnam-raj-sundarason Rajaratnam Sundarason], surgeon, one of the founders of [[International House (University of Melbourne)|International House]] <ref>https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/engage/alumni/community/obituaries/dr-rajaratnam-raj-sundarason</ref>
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* [[Sydney James Van Pelt]], pioneer of modern [[hypnotherapy]]
 +
* [[Vicki Anderson (psychologist)]], pediatric neuropsychologist
 +
* [[Kathleen Funder]], researcher, [[Australian Institute of Family Studies]]
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* [[Peter O'Connor (psychologist)]], psychologist
 +
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==== Physics ====
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* [[Walter Boas]]
 +
* [[Samuel L. Braunstein]]
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* [[John M. Cowley]]
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* [[Rod Crewther]]
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* [[Richard Dalitz]] - inventor of the [[Dalitz plot]]
 +
* [[Terence James Elkins]]
 +
* [[Colin J. Gillespie]]
 +
* [[Kerr Grant]]
 +
* [[Peter Hannaford]]
 +
* [[Alan Head]]
 +
* [[T. H. Laby]]
 +
* [[Rodney Marks]]
 +
* [[Leslie H. Martin]] 
 +
* Sir [[Harrie Massey]]
 +
* [[Fulvio Melia]]
 +
* [[Keith Nugent]]
 +
* [[Helen Quinn]] - former president of the [[American Physical Society]]; recipient of the [[Dirac Medal]] in 2000 and the [[Sakurai Prize]] in 2013
 +
* [[William Sutherland (physicist)|William Sutherland]]
 +
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==Faculty==
 +
 +
* [[Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson]]
 +
* [[Peter Baines (academic)|Peter Baines]], geophysicist
 +
* [[Lisa Cameron (economist)|Lisa Cameron]]
 +
* [[Henri Daniel Rathgeber]]
 +
* [[Jocelyn Hyslop]], inaugural Director of Social Studies
 +
* [[Josephine Forbes]], Principal Research Fellow, Department of Medicine
 +
* [[Dolly Kikon]], School of Social and Political Sciences
 +
 +
==Administration==
 +
 +
=== Chancellors ===
 +
{| class="wikitable"
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|- style="background:#fc3;"
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! Order !! [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]]  !! Years !! Notes
 +
|-
 +
| 1  || [[Redmond Barry|Sir Redmond Barry]]  || 1853–1880 ||
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|-
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| 2  || [[William Stawell|Sir William Stawell]] || 1881–1882 ||
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|-
 +
| 3  || [[James Moorhouse]] || 1883–1886 |
 +
|-
 +
| 4 || [[William Hearn (legal academic)|William Hearn]] ||  1886 ||
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|-
 +
| 5  || [[Anthony Brownless|Sir Anthony Brownless]]  || 1887–1897  ||
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|-
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| 6  || [[John Madden (judge)|Sir John Madden]]  || 1897–1918 ||
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|-
 +
| 7 || [[John Henry MacFarland|Sir John MacFarland]]  || 1918–1935 ||
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|-
 +
| 8  || [[James Barrett (academic)|Sir James Barrett]] || 1935–1939 ||
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|-
 +
| 9  || [[John Latham (judge)|Sir John Latham]] || 1939–1941 ||
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|-
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| 10  || [[Charles John Lowe|Sir Charles John Lowe]] || 1941–1954 ||
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|-
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| 11  || [[Arthur Dean (judge)|Sir Arthur Dean]]|| 1954–1966 ||
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|-
 +
| 12  || [[William Upjohn (surgeon)|Sir William Upjohn]] || 1966–1967 ||
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|-
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| 13 || [[Robert Menzies|Sir Robert Menzies]] || 1967–1972 ||
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|-
 +
| 14 || [[Leonard Weickhardt]]  || 1972–1978 ||
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|-
 +
| 15 || [[Oliver Gillard|Sir Oliver Gillard]] || 1978–1980  ||
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|-
 +
| 16 || [[Roy Wright (physiologist)|Sir Roy Wright]] || 1980–1989 ||
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|-
 +
| 17 || [[Edward Woodward (judge)|Sir Edward Woodward]] || 1990–2001 ||
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|-
 +
| 18 || [[Fay Marles]]  || 2001–2004 ||
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|-
 +
| 19 || [[Ian Renard]] || 2005–2009 ||
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|-
 +
| 20 || [[Alex Chernov]] || 2009–2011 ||
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|-
 +
| 21 || [[Elizabeth Alexander (businesswoman)|Elizabeth Alexander]] || 2011–2016 ||
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|-
 +
|22
 +
|[[Allan Myers]]
 +
|2017–
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|
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|}
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MottoPostera Crescam Laude
(Latin)
Formation1853
HeadquartersMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Type Public
A large number of Australian leaders have studied here

The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria.[1] Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria.

Incorporated by the Victoria Colony, the University of Melbourne is one of Australia's six sandstone universities and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21, Washington University's McDonnell International Scholars Academy,[2] and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872 various residential colleges have become affiliated with the university, offering accommodation for students and faculty, and academic, sporting and cultural programs. There are ten colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs.

The university comprises ten separate academic units and is associated with numerous institutes and research centres, including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Grattan Institute. Amongst the university's fifteen graduate schools, the Melbourne Business School, the Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Medical School are particularly well regarded.[3][4][5]

History

Old Quad, the original building of the University of Melbourne

Foundations of the university

The original University of Melbourne building, 1857, Victoria Illustrated collection, State Library Victoria.

The University of Melbourne was established following a proposal by Hugh Childers, the Auditor-General and Finance Minister, in his first Budget Speech on 4 November 1852, who set aside a sum of £10,000 for the establishment of a university.[6] The university was established by Act of Incorporation on 22 January 1853, with power to confer degrees in arts, medicine, laws and music. The act provided for an annual endowment of £9,000, while a special grant of £20,000 was made for buildings that year.[7] The foundation stone was laid on 3 July 1854, and on the same day the foundation stone for the State Library[8] Classes commenced in 1855 with three professors and sixteen students; of this body of students only four graduated. The original buildings were officially opened by the Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Sir Charles Hotham, on 3 October 1855.

A law school was established in 1857 at the Parkville campus, following which a Faculty of Engineering and School of Medicine were established in 1861 and 1862 respectively. The university's residential colleges were first opened on the northern aspect of the campus in 1872, divided between the four main Christian denominations.[9]

The first chancellor, Redmond Barry (later Sir Redmond), held the position until his death in 1880. The inauguration of the university was made possible by the wealth resulting from Victoria's gold rush. The institution was designed to be a "civilising influence" at a time of rapid settlement and commercial growth. In 1881, the admission of women was a seen as victory over the more conservative ruling council. Julia 'Bella' Guerin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1883, and became the first woman to graduate from an Australian University.

The view of the Melbourne Law School, Business and Economics, The Spot and Alan Gilbert Building.

1900s–1970s

Early in the 1900s the university expanded its offerings to more utilitarian courses. In 1901 the number of students enrolled at the University of Melbourne exceeded 500 students for the first time. The university established the Diploma of Education in 1903, following negotiations with the Victorian Education Department. Despite the economic depression of the 1890s and the discovery of a significant fraud by a university registrar in 1901, the university continued to expand during this period. This growth included the construction of several buildings between 1900 and 1906. Such growth was facilitated largely through an increased government funding allocation, and the coinciding university led funding campaign. To accompany the training dentists received by the Melbourne Dental Hospital, a School of Dentistry was established to teach the scientific basis of dentistry at the university. Agriculture was established in 1911 following the appointment of the State Director of Agriculture as the first professor. During this period the university became a notable site for research, emerging as a leader in Australia. Following World War II the demand for higher education increased rapidly, and as a result became a transformative period for the university.[10]

In 1940, the first issue of Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand, now Australian Historical Studies, was published by the Department of History.[11]

1980s – present

File:Unimelb main entrance.jpg
Main entrance (Gate 10) to Parkville Campus of The University of Melbourne from Grattan Street

Expansion of the university increased significantly during the 1980s and 1990s, as the university amalgamated with a number of tertiary colleges. In 1988 the Melbourne Teachers' College was brought into the Faculty of Education, and the amalgamation lead to the formation of a distinctly new Faculty of Education. The College of Advanced Education was incorporated into the university in 1989. During this period, more students than ever had before attended the university. The university had expanded its student population to beyond 35,000 students. Such amalgamations continued into the 1990s, with the Victorian College of the Arts affiliation with the University of Melbourne in 1992. This grew the number of campuses for the University of Melbourne, which would now include a new St Kilda Road location.

In 2001, the Melbourne School of Population Health was established, the first of its kind in Australia, and continued the growth of the university. Work at the centre involved contributions from many disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to epidemiology. Health fields such as Indigenous, women's, mental, sexual, and rural health have all been researched at the centre. A significant change in curriculum was established in 2008. The newly created model for education was developed, known at the university as The Melbourne Model. In this curriculum model, students firstly undertake a general bachelor's degree before specialising in either a professional or research graduate course.

The university's 150th anniversary was celebrated in 2003.[12]

The Melbourne School of Land and Environment was disestablished on 1 January 2015. Its agriculture and food systems department moved alongside veterinary science to form the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, while other areas of study, including horticulture, forestry, geography and resource management, moved to the Faculty of Science in two new departments.

Today over 8900 academic and professional staff support the more than 52,000 strong student population. The student population consists of more than 13,000 international students, from more than 130 countries.

In 2020, on-campus teaching was limited to selected clinical placements as a result of social distancing restrictions imposed by the Victorian State Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of teaching was moved to online delivery during the first semester.[13] Like many other institutions and workplaces, university faculty members elected to use Zoom Video Communications to conduct live tutorials online.

File:Autumn at The University of Melbourne.jpg
Autumn at the university grounds

Notable Alumni

Academia

Business

Community activism

Government

Governors General of Australia

Governors of Victoria

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia
Premiers of Victoria
Federal politicians
Australian state and territory politicians
International politicians
Public servants

Humanities

History

Journalism

Literature, writing and poetry

Philosophy

Law

Chief Justices of Australia
Justices of the High Court of Australia
Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
Justices of the Federal Court of Australia
Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
Chief Justices of Victoria
Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal

Other legal professionals

  • Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
  • Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
  • Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords

Military

Religious leaders

Sciences

Medicine

Physics

Faculty

Administration

Chancellors

Order Chancellor Years Notes
1 Sir Redmond Barry 1853–1880
2 Sir William Stawell 1881–1882
3 James Moorhouse
4 William Hearn 1886
5 Sir Anthony Brownless 1887–1897
6 Sir John Madden 1897–1918
7 Sir John MacFarland 1918–1935
8 Sir James Barrett 1935–1939
9 Sir John Latham 1939–1941
10 Sir Charles John Lowe 1941–1954
11 Sir Arthur Dean 1954–1966
12 Sir William Upjohn 1966–1967
13 Sir Robert Menzies 1967–1972
14 Leonard Weickhardt 1972–1978
15 Sir Oliver Gillard 1978–1980
16 Sir Roy Wright 1980–1989
17 Sir Edward Woodward 1990–2001
18 Fay Marles 2001–2004
19 Ian Renard 2005–2009
20 Alex Chernov 2009–2011
21 Elizabeth Alexander 2011–2016
22 Allan Myers 2017–


 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointed
Tim FlanneryProfessorial fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute2013

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Julian Assange3 July 1971AustraliaSpook
Hacker
Media executive		A "hacktivist" of mysterious background, whose website, Wikileaks, has been the conduit for a lot of whistleblowing. His pronounced disinterest in 9/11 is particularly notable.
Peter Barbour5 October 192522 November 1996AustraliaSpookWhen the government ordered ASIO to sever all ties with the Central Intelligence Agency, Barbour decided to ignored the order.
Neil Brown22 February 1940AustraliaPoliticianAn Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Richard Casey29 August 189017 June 1976AustraliaSpook
Deep politician		Australian who founded ASIS
John CostellaResearcher
Gareth Evans5 September 1944AustraliaPoliticianAustralian politician
Robert Fraser1904AustraliaEditorAn Australian who, in the United Kingdom, worked as a journalist, civil servant and as the first Director General of the British Independent Television Authority.
Julia Gillard29 September 1961PoliticianPrime Minister of Australia from 2011 to 2013 who went on'a CIA re-education course'. From 2021 Chair of the Wellcome Trust. Her services to the Israel lobby got her husband a cushy job.
Harold Holt5 August 1908AustraliaPoliticianAustralian Prime Minister who disappeared in 1967. He was presumed drowned.
Jeremy Howard13 November 1973AustraliaBusinesspersonStarted business working for digitalisation of healthcare. Then at the very start of the COVID-event he organized worldwide campaign for mandatory face masks, making face-to-face health care very difficult. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Greg Hunt18 November 1965AustraliaPoliticianAustralian Minister for Health responsible for the government's actions in the COVID-19 deep event. Decades of grooming by the World Economic Forum.
Mark Leibler1943Israel
Australia		LawyerTax lawyer who is one of the leaders of the Australian Zionist lobby through the billionaire-funded Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. While "not not well known to most Australians", his influence "far exceeds his public profile", and he has developed and sustained close relationships with senior Australian politicians.
Richard Marles13 July 1967AustraliaPoliticianAustralian deputy prime minister
Robert O'Neill5 November 193619 April 2023AustraliaSpook
Academic
Historian		Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies for 5 years
Keith Officer2 October 188921 June 1969AustraliaDiplomatOne of the founders of the Australian Foreign Service. Single Bilderberg.
Thomas Pickering5 November 1931USDiplomat
Deep politician		US diplomat and suspected deep politician, because of being so highly connected
Samuel Pisar18 March 192927 July 2015LawyerRobert Maxwell's lawyer, Tony Blinken's step-father
Mark Regev1960IsraelDiplomat
Media spokesman		The Israeli Prime Minister's Official Spokesman 2007-2015, later Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom
James Riady1957IndonesiaBusinesspersonIndonesian billionaire businessman with long-standing ties to the Clintons.
Peter Salama196823 January 2020AustraliaDoctor
Epidemiologist
COVID-19/Premature death		WHO leader who died just before the Covid-19 pandemic was declared
Patrick Shaw18 September 1913AustraliaDiplomatAustralian Ambassador to the United States, dies of heart attack a month after the 1975 coup in Australia.
Andrew Shearer1966AustraliaSpookSenior Australian spook. Central role in the machinations around cancelling a $90 billion French submarine contract, in order to instead order 8 US nuclear submarines for $360 billion, in what became known as AUKUS.
Peter Singer6 July 1946AustraliaBioethicsBioethicist favored by Bill Gates. Wants to "break the taboo" surrounding overpopulation.
Adrian ThomasAustraliaBig pharma/Lobbyist
Pharmaceutical executive		Pharma executive who attended Event 201 Covid dry-run.
Alan Westerman25 March 191318 May 2001AustraliaOne of very few people from the Southern hemisphere who have attended a Bilderberg.
Richard Woolcott11 June 1927AustraliaDiplomatAustralian public servant, diplomat, author and commentator. Informant to the United States, providing consular officials with information of internal government processes before the coup in 1975. Australian American Leadership Dialogue.
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References

  1. ↑ http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/explore/about |title=About the University : Future Students
  2. ↑ https://global.wustl.edu/mcdonnell-academy/
  3. ↑ http://theconversation.com/melbourne-university-regarded-top-in-country-but-reputation-isnt-everything-5874
  4. ↑ http://www.australianuniversities.com.au/info/4/melbourne/
  5. ↑ {http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/melbourne-tops-discipline-based-ranking/story-e6frgcjx-1226637055540
  6. ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36869578
  7. ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10961588
  8. ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10961588
  9. ↑ http://our-history.unimelb.edu.au/timeline/ |website=Our History
  10. ↑ https://brandhub.unimelb.edu.au/our-brand/brand-story |website=Brand Hub |
  11. ↑ https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-historical-and-philosophical-studies/our-research/publications/academic-journals
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110210090414/http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/
  13. ↑ https://www.unimelb.edu.au/coronavirus/update
  14. ↑ http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070244b.htm Behan, Sir John Clifford Valentine (1881 - 1957), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 247–248. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
  15. ↑ National University of Singapore. "Professor Simon Chesterman to be new Dean of NUS Law School". Press release. http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/pressrel/1110/311011.php. Retrieved 14 March 2015. 
  16. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Gillian D Triggs - United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Archived 2013-04-26 at the Wayback Machine. pdf
  17. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/07/1025667089032.html
  18. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life/australian-dr-helen-durham-breaks-glass-ceiling-at-international-committee-of-the-red-cross-20140611-zs4a9.html
  19. ↑ Coleman, Robert, Above renown: The biography of Sir Henry Winneke, South Melbourne, MacMillan Australia, 1988.
  20. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography
  21. ↑ http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/politicians/julia-gillard/index.cfm
  22. ↑ {{Australian Dictionary of Biography
  23. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named irvine
  24. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/judge-sought-social-justice-for-all-20100428-tsc0.html
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