“So it’s important that we reflect what is happening in the Australian context, rather than what we see happening in universities on the other side of the world.” At Melbourne University, where about 30 tents have been pitched, vice chancellor Duncan Maskell said the right of people to protest had to be “balanced against the safety of all staff, students, and especially our new students”. “We take this very seriously,” he said. Deborah Terry, head of the University of Queensland where a protest involving about 150 people took place on Monday, and where an encampment of about 10 tents has...