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Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975–2015 by Carolyn Rasmussen

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December 2018, no. 407

Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975–2015 by Carolyn Rasmussen

Miegunyah Press, $49.99 hb, 411 pp, 9780522872460

Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975–2015 by Carolyn Rasmussen

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December 2018, no. 407

During the 1960s and 1970s, student radicals protested that their places of learning were getting too close to industry and government. In 1970, Monash University students occupied the university’s Careers and Appointments Office to oppose the use of the university as a recruiting ground for companies profiting from the Vietnam War, and to protest its outreach to industry in the ill-fated Monash University Scientific and Industrial Complex. Universities could not pretend to be dedicated to truth and free enquiry, students argued, while operating hand in glove with capitalism and the ‘military-industrial complex’ that they ought to be critiquing.

Kate Murphy reviews 'Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975–2015' by Carolyn Rasmussen

Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975–2015

by Carolyn Rasmussen

Miegunyah Press, $49.99 hb, 411 pp, 9780522872460

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