The one question UniMelb’s new vice chancellor is reluctant to answer
by Maani Truu · Australian Financial ReviewMaani TruuEducation correspondent
Oct 23, 2026 – 9.00am
There are three reasons Carolyn Evans did not think she was going to land a Rhodes Scholarship. The first: the prestigious ticket to study at Oxford University is very hard to get.
Then, during a lunch that formed part of the selection process in 1994, she accidentally propelled a buttered potato from a butler’s serving dish into the chest of the then Victorian governor’s wife.
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Maani TruuEducation correspondentMaani Truu is The Australian Financial Review’s education correspondent, covering schools and higher education from Parliament House in Canberra. She was previously a federal political reporter at the ABC. Send encrypted tips to @maanitruu.72 on Signal. Email Maani at maani.truu@afr.com.au
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