The Federal Government yesterday announced a raft of changes to their financial support of undergraduate university places under the title ‘Job-ready graduates’. Undergraduate places in Australia are mostly government-subsidised, supported in part by a contribution from the student themselves (the student contribution) and in part by the government (the commonwealth…

How philosophical accounts of the difference between what a sentence means, and what someone means by saying it, illuminate the controversy. — A couple of weeks ago, the Australian senate voted on a motion for the Senate to acknowledge that “it is a motion calling OK to be white”. The motion was moved by the populist right wing One Nation party, but the controversial aspect is that it gained the support of…