In-coming La Trobe U chancellor, John Brumby (March start) has resigned from the board of Huawei Australia. Mr Brumby signalled he would do this last June. La Trobe U is largely Huawei free – in 2017 the company listed it as a partner in its “Seeds of the Future” programme, intended to send students to China for a three-week study tour but nothing appears to have happened since.