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UniMelb’s new vice chancellor on AI, free speech and $1m salaries

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
October 22, 2026 • 10:00 PM
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Carolyn Evans literally wrote the book on freedom of religion and speech on campus. Now she’ll have to put it to the test.

UniMelb’s new vice chancellor on AI, free speech and $1m salaries

There are three reasons Carolyn Evans did not think she was going to land a Rhodes Scholarship. The first: the prestigious ticket to study at Oxford University is very hard to get.

Then, during a lunch that formed part of the selection process in 1994, she accidentally propelled a buttered potato from a butler’s serving dish into the chest of the then Victorian governor’s wife.

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