Melbourne High during my time here — from 1958 to 1961, back in the dark ages before even your parents were born — rivalled the top private schools not only academically, having a fantastic cast of teachers and a lot of very bright students, but in the multi-dimensionality of the educational experience it provided. I learned a lot academically, particularly about history and the history of ideas and the values that have moved the world

There are a great many students who are enormously attracted by the idea of a diplomatic career. Or, if not in the foreign service as such, certainly a job that takes you out and about internationally and gets you engaged with international policy issues, be they to do with peace and security, aid and development, trade, or any one of the innumerable transnational policy issues — from climate change to people trafficking to managing health pandemics