In this paper, I will be providing several reflections on planning education, with in Australia and internationally. I will be using as a starting point the recent development of a postgraduate-only professional education model at the University of Melbourne, known colloquially as the 'Melbourne Model'. I will provide my own personal views on whether spatiai planning should be an undergraduate or postgraduate course, or a mixture of the two. I will then discuss the current internationa! discourse on 'reinventing planning' and how this new global discourse might affect planning education in Australia, I will conclude by providing my opinion on how best to manage the tensions between 'staffing the profession' and 'changing the profession' of planning in Australia.
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