Message from the Editor I was lucky to speak with a room full of young people at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering this week, at an ‘ask me anything’ session. So many of them were worried that the university system was not delivering, and that, for students, fear of debt was making them think twice about further education and distorting subject choices.

Fear of student debt, stalled reform and the long shadow of the Dismissal frame this week’s reflections from P&I editor @catrionajackso1 on what Australia must confront now. #AusPol #HigherEducation #UniversityReform #WhitlamLegacy #PublicPolicy #PearlsAndIrritations

Yesterday an #AustralianMonarchist took #homophobic aim at my partner in a debate - today another one is attacking the #WhitlamLegacy - so I shared my academic paper with him when he couldn’t even understand how evidence works search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/... @anatolitis.bsky.social