Having sat in the Bush administration’s National Security Council during early years of the Iraq War, Green’s appointment is regarded as controversial.

Mulvaney has a history of anti-LGBT views, while Lewis sits on the board of Thales Australia.

The ANU says it backed out of a partnership with the conservative institute after it sought "unprecedented" control over its proposed western civilisation course.

The National Union of Students is organising a sneaky protest, which you can support from your favourite armchair.

Chancellor Belinda Hutchinson may not have been allowed into the meeting because her name is not a derivative of ‘Michael Ence’.

Oliver Moore and Naaman Zhou report