University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne   (University)
Motto	Postera Crescam Laude (Latin)
Formation	1853
Headquarters	Melbourne, 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. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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

1980s – present

Expansion of the university increased significantly during the 1980s and 1990s, as the university amalgamated with a number of tertiary colleges. During this period, more students than ever had before attended the university. The university had expanded its student population to beyond 35,000 students.

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.

Today over 8900 academic and professional staff work with the more than 52,000 students. 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 placements as a result of social distancing restrictions imposed by the Victorian State Government as part of Covid-19. The majority of teaching was moved online during the first semester.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed
Tim Flannery	Professorial fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute	2013

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Julian Assange	3 July 1971		Australia	Spook 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 Barbour	5 October 1925	22 November 1996	Australia	Spook	When the government ordered ASIO to sever all ties with the Central Intelligence Agency, Barbour decided to ignored the order.
Neil Brown	22 February 1940		Australia	Politician	An Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Richard Casey	29 August 1890	17 June 1976	Australia	Spook Deep politician	Australian who founded ASIS
John Costella				Researcher
Gareth Evans	5 September 1944		Australia	Politician	Australian politician
Robert Fraser	1904		Australia	Editor	An 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 Gillard	29 September 1961			Politician	Prime 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 Holt	5 August 1908		Australia	Politician	Australian Prime Minister who disappeared in 1967. He was presumed drowned.
Jeremy Howard	13 November 1973		Australia	Businessperson	Started 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 Hunt	18 November 1965		Australia	Politician	Australian Minister for Health responsible for the government's actions in the COVID-19 deep event. Decades of grooming by the World Economic Forum.
Mark Leibler	1943		Israel Australia	Lawyer	Tax 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 Marles	13 July 1967		Australia	Politician	Australian deputy prime minister
Robert O'Neill	5 November 1936	19 April 2023	Australia	Spook Academic Historian	Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies for 5 years
Keith Officer	2 October 1889	21 June 1969	Australia	Diplomat	One of the founders of the Australian Foreign Service. Single Bilderberg.
Thomas Pickering	5 November 1931		US	Diplomat Deep politician	US diplomat and suspected deep politician, because of being so highly connected
Samuel Pisar	18 March 1929	27 July 2015		Lawyer	Robert Maxwell's lawyer, Tony Blinken's step-father
Mark Regev	1960		Israel	Diplomat Media spokesman	The Israeli Prime Minister's Official Spokesman 2007-2015, later Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom
James Riady	1957		Indonesia	Businessperson	Indonesian billionaire businessman with long-standing ties to the Clintons.
Peter Salama	1968	23 January 2020	Australia	Doctor Epidemiologist COVID-19/Premature death	WHO leader who died just before the Covid-19 pandemic was declared
Patrick Shaw	18 September 1913		Australia	Diplomat	Australian Ambassador to the United States, dies of heart attack a month after the 1975 coup in Australia.
Andrew Shearer	1966		Australia	Spook	Senior 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 Singer	6 July 1946		Australia	Bioethics	Bioethicist favored by Bill Gates. Wants to "break the taboo" surrounding overpopulation.
Adrian Thomas			Australia	Big pharma/Lobbyist Pharmaceutical executive	Pharma executive who attended Event 201 Covid dry-run.
Alan Westerman	25 March 1913	18 May 2001	Australia		One of very few people from the Southern hemisphere who have attended a Bilderberg.
Richard Woolcott	11 June 1927		Australia	Diplomat	Australian 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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