What big ideas or challenges should WE be addressing in Australia right now?

Mick Malthouse
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University

There must be no tolerance for racism in the AFL.

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Sarah Williams

Agree so wholeheartedly it's not funny. Any reference to racism must be stamped out, it should be a level playing field - no special compensations, no differences no matter where you are from. If we are all to be treated equally, then we should all be treated equally - Aboriginal kids should get assistance due to being regionally located, not because of being Aboriginal.

Alks chen

Good

Carlos Alantara

contingent idiosyncrasies and political correctness are not enough reasons for the withdrawal of freedom of speech.Everything should be exposed to scrutiny, niches that experience oppresion will find their struggles justified as they will understand that institutional harrasment is a proof of their righteousness. Trying to impose constraints to public discourse only stagnates society, let the people regulate their own society, laissez-faire,the intolerance of intolerance is still intolerance.

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Arthur Daylidonis

Changing educational experience by personilising experience using AI and readily available technology would break the classical perception of what education in University is all about. Being a part of the development process of such system is such an excitement!

Mick Malthouse
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University

We are too flippant in our apology to the Aborigines.

Julie Rudner
Academic, La Trobe,,

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We need to set kids up for a variety of situations, a variety of risks. But (with our concern about certain types of risk) are we doing this?

Dorothy Smith
Academic, La Trobe,

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For as long as I've been involved in teaching science in high schools I've been hearing about a problem of students taking up science. Maybe we're not tackling the problem in the right way.

Prof. Dennis Altman
Academic, La Trobe

Children have the right to be exposed to all cultures and religious beliefs.

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Eamon Cole-flynn

right to be exposed but also the right to be able to remove themself from it too

Saide Gray

If children understand other cultures and religions, then greater individual and national understanding is more likely to develop within and across borders.

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Dr Liam Lenten
Academic, La Trobe,

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For right or for wrong, Universities will continue to evolve away from the ‘ancient’ model into something that modern communities expect from these institutions

Dr Susan Lawler
Academic, La Trobe,

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A changing future needs learners, not the learned. A modern University education teaches us to think and adapt to new ideas.

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Tony Alexander

The Australian economy depends on primary industry for it's prosperity and imports probably around 80% if not more of manufactured consumer goods.

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Simon McKeon
Exec. Chairman, Macquarie Group Melbourne Office, Australian of the Year 2011

If as a CEO you are not taking the time and effort to connect with the bottom 5% of the population, you are a sub-optimal CEO.

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Bess Byrne

Eduction desperately needs an over haul, before the bogans, take over completely.

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Dr Susan Lawrence
Academic, La Trobe

Education opens us to the world around us. It develops in us, individually and as a society, the capacity to understand who we are and to reach for who we might become. The role of the university is to value knowledge and to nurture passion and excitement about learning.

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Mia Ellis

With knowledge, one can lift oneself up from poverty

Jessica White

Education also has to connect with community so we know how we can contribute.

Tyler Cameron

The economic value of the humanities and social sciences can not be assessed in monetary terms. If an educational institution is acting purely for profit then they have lost site of their purpose and neglected the students - who are the stakeholders.

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Jessica Snell

If I could change one thing in the world in the last 5 years it would be all the times I said nasty things to my parents because 5 years on, I can now look back and see how much grief I must have caused them and feel horribly guilty for that.

Rebecca Monforte

If metro trains ran to schedule & were not jam packed, it would make my day!

Dr Susan Bradley Smith
Academic, La Trobe

Acquiring an education is both a tough and wondrous experience, as any worthwhile journey should be. It should also be empowering, and joyous, and take us to startling, meaningful places hitherto unimagined. Universities are the creative engines of our time.

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Matty Pavich

We need to empower people to think independently of others. Most discrimination is learned from someone else who learned it from someone else who learned it from someone else. Educating people isn't enough, we also need to inspire people.

Ruby Tolmer

I came to this university because it offered me CHOICE above all others. It allowed me flexibility in my subjects, and support when I chose to change them around. Now I find the things I valued and am thankful for, this Choice, is being diminished, for a percentile and a number on a list - what values exactly is that meant to expound?

jean smith

TEACH KIDS RESPECTAND LOVE OF ANIMALS/ IF there was a warwould we have the people volunteer like in 1939 GOD SAVE THE Queen STOP EATING MEAT,go back to wartime rations,we got through and were not like the weaklings of today/ GOD HAVE MERCY ON AUSTRALIA

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