This anecdote relies on the knowledge that many Australian universities, particularly for technical subjects, rely on a lot of group work for assignments, which

This anecdote relies on the knowledge that many Australian universities, particularly for technical subjects, rely on a lot of group work for assignments, which the conspiracist in me thinks is to help mask the prevalence of plagiarism. Now, the anecdote: When I was in university one of our projects was to submit a functional web application handling sales and loans. It was a group assignment with 3 other students, and I asked everyone to contribute on git, not for any technical reasons but because I wanted an audit trail. One of the group members, a ‘full fee’ student, submitted something so obviously copied, including a bunch of comments in another language, and that looked nothing like our UI, that I googled a snippet and got back almost the entire thing. I immediately sent the commit link and link to where it came from to both the class tutor and the lecturer because I’m not risking this having my name on it, and the response was nonexistent. The student still passed the class. That’s the state of Australian universities as far as I’m concerned, having lived it for 6 years and never seen any other action taken against any instance of it.