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Simon Haines Defends Humanities at AFR Higher Education Summit 2025

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Critique of Humanities’ Marginalization At the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit in August 2025, Simon Haines, former head of ANU’s School of Humanities and now an adjunct professor at ACU, delivered a strong defense of the humanities[1]. Haines praised Australian universities for doing “brilliantly” in professional training and research, but warned that their “third […]

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A Jungle of Books Good for the Soul

A recent editorial offers a timely defence of something simple yet increasingly rare: children deeply absorbed in books. Simon Haines describes reading as an “alternative reality”, one that cultivates attention, imagination, and the ability to grapple with human complexity. This, he argues, is not just an educational skill but a moral one the groundwork for