Sex, politics, and religion. Three topics routinely considered off-limits in polite company—in mixed company; in refined company. Three subjects deemed personal, inflammatory, and best avoided out of respect, consideration, and diplomacy.

It’s not every day you get asked to audit and catalogue hundreds of university websites, some of them dating back to the early 1990s and the early days of the internet in Australia. This unique project has seen us uncover some lost gems of the university’s web presence, and some of the intriguing people and stories behind our own web history.

‘Social Equity’ sounds like an important and worthwhile concept, but it can mean very different things to different people. Part of the problem in trying to define this concept is that it reflects ideas of ‘fairness’ and ‘justness’ which are based on moral values and considerations.  What one person thinks is fair may differ markedly from what another thinks is fair.