University of Melbourne Magazine

A chance botanical encounter reveals what the explorers knew long ago: that Australia’s Indigenous people had been cultivating crops well before the first Europeans arrived.

Professor Don Henry looks ahead to the negotiations at the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris later this year.

We can now access huge amounts of knowledge from the human genome – but this knowledge doesn’t come for free. Christine Kenneally explores the implications of being able to unpick our most personal data.

Professor Rob Adams argues that cities hold the key to our economic, social and environmental challenges.

The Vice-Chancellor on a university in the service of the nation.