the australian national university

Australian National University chancellor Julie Bishop has sought external legal advice over an alleged attempt to block access to encrypted text messages sent by the university’s interim vice-chancellor, Rebekah Brown. The messages relate to an apparent plan to remove Brown’s predecessor, Genevieve Bell, as vice-chancellor. The associated uproar has again seen Brown directed to leave a governing council meeting and has seen the phones of at least two university deans seized by investigators. At a meeting on Friday, April 24, Bishop told the ANU’s governing council that she had received a memo