“First” and “only” are strong, definitive words, which might explain why they appear so often in media coverage. As the first higher education provider in Australia to become a university under new national standards and the only addition to the “Australian University” category following a transition to those standards, news of our new status received wide coverage. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/07/22/avondale-a-university-key-commentary/