Landscape Architecture Australia — February 2018

Robert

Menzies

Malcolm

Fraser

John

Gorton

Bob

Hawke

Gough

Various Whitlam

i

LAST VESTIGES OF THE

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY REMOVED

Free education introduced

for domestic students

Queensland University of Technology

University of New South Wales

University of Canberra

University of Western Australia

University of Melbourne

RMIT University

University of Adelaide

Deakin University

University of Technology Sydney

1957 1960 1970 1980

1980

1967

Opening of Colleges of

Advanced Education (CAE)

• More accessible than universities

1967

Australia’s first

landscape architecture

program

1951

Commencement of the

Colombo Plan

1974

Gough Whitlam

introduced free education

1985

Market-driven approach

adopted for international

students

1987

John Dawkins champions a

user-pay approach to

tertiary education

350,000

250,000

1986

Full-fee places introduced

for international students

Source: Andrew Norton and Ben Cakitaki, Mapping Australian higher education 2016

(Grattan Institute, 2016).

i H arold Holt (1966 – 67 ), J ohn M cEwen (1967– 68), W illiam M cM ahon (1971–72).

Education in

landscape architecture

Federal governments

Student enrolments

in Australian universities:

domestic / in ternational

THE CHANGING

DEMOGRAPHICS

OF AUSTRALIAN

UNIVERSITIES

Over the past seventy years, enrolments

of international students have

significantly increased at Australian

universities. This graphic explores the

key drivers.

—
Illustration Tom Harper and Brock Hogan (Placemark)