Articles by Ross Mckenzie
What is a university for?
Universities have changed dramatically over the course of my lifetime—a lifetime which has included 9 years as a student and 32 years as an academic, across 6 universities in Australia and the USA. Australian universities are receiving increasing media attention due to failures in management and governance, including a recent ABC Four Corners documentary. Numerous books by academics lament the state of Australian universities.
How many states of matter are there?
Diamond and graphite are distinct solid states of carbon. They have qualitatively different physical properties, at both the microscopic and the macroscopic scale. Condensed matter physics is all about states of matter. In science classes at school, you were probably taught that there are only three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Like other things you were told in school, this is incorrect. There are endless, unlimited, distinct states of matter.
My mental health journey
I have struggled with my mental health for most of my adult life. Here I tell my own story to put a personal face on the issue, and because when I have told it in the past, many people have found it helpful to know they are not alone in their mental health struggles. Any discussion of mental illness and healing involves assumptions about what we believe a human being is. The complexities illustrate the multifaceted character of reality.
COMMENT: 2026 Carbon Credit Forecast Calls for Greater Diversification as VCM Scales
By Ross McKenzie, Executive Vice President & Co-Leader, Elimini Progress rarely follows a straight line, yet the voluntary carbon market (VCM) appears to be the exception heading into 2026. External pressures this past year ranged from the explosion in energy demand as the AI race reached full steam, to shifts in the policy and economic landscapes, creating new headwinds for broadscale decarbonisation efforts.
How AI Is Quietly Transforming the Home-Moving Experience
By Ross McKenzie, Founder & CEO, Open Moove Moving home is consistently ranked among life’s most stressful experiences. Right up there with changing jobs or going through a major life event. For most people, the process feels fragmented, unpredictable, and emotionally draining. For professionals in the industry, it’s often just as tough: endless chasing, duplicated work, and constant pressure to keep clients calm.
Anti-money laundering in trade – an in-depth TFG guide 2020
Cookies, device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network based identifiers) together with other information (e.g. browser type and information, language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes presented here.
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