Debate@Go8

Episode 8 - Universities and Government Intervention with Go8 Chair, Professor Margaret Gardner AC

Group of Eight Chair Professor Margaret Gardner says universities must be autonomous to preserve the capacity for speaking the uncomfortable and researching the unknowable.

Episode 7 - Medical students boost COVID vaccine rollout

Go8 universities are supporting Australia’s battle against COVID-19, delivering life-saving research and a surge workforce to boost the vaccine roll out.

Episode 6 - Professor Ian Jacobs discusses Universities and the nation’s post-COVID recovery

UNSW’s Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs joins Debate@Go8 to discuss his experience in Australia’s university sector, and examine the important role the sector will play in our nation’s post COVID recovery.

Episode 5 - Cocoa-Indonesian Milk

University of Adelaide researchers Professors Wendy Umberger and Randy Stringer join Debate@Go8 to discuss research that’s the changing lives of Indo-Pacific farmers.

Episode 4 - Smoke Taint

Wine makers and grape growers around the globe are looking for ways protect grapes from the impact of bushfires. The University of Adelaide's Professor Kerry Wilkinson joins Debate@Go8 to discuss how her team may hold the key.

Episode 3 - International Students (Part 2)

Debate@Go8 discusses options for the safe return of international students in a changed global environment.

Episode 2 - International Students (Part 1)

Group of Eight Chief Executive Vicki Thomson discusses the importance of international students to Australia’s university sector and the nation’s broader economy with Debate@Go8.

Episode 1 - Foreign Interference

Group of Eight Chief Executive Vicki Thomson joins Debate@Go8 to discuss recent allegations of foreign interference in Australian universities.