Australia and New Zealand

Western Australia defers return of quarantine-free travel in response to Omicron variant as eastern states open up

Backlash grows to include proposed legislation to remove ministers’ power to cancel funding applications

Sector says overseas learners should be able to focus on their courses, but government also has an eye on labour shortages

Ex-prime minister says cancellation of funding ‘betrays government’s hostility to higher education’

Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say Australian researchers

Leading scholars from Australian universities have joined scientific bodies to demand reversal of pre-election veto of humanities grants

Pushing the ARC to focus on commercialisation neglects the complex interdependency between basic and applied research, says Duncan Ivison

While many governments struggle to predict workforce needs, Australia’s new tropical alliance is giving it a crack

Australia’s wealthiest university locks horns with one of its own academics, who says ‘the public has a right to know’

Students collaborate to combat food shortages, as Covid widens the gap between Australia’s haves and have-nots

Six humanities projects reportedly vetoed and China collaboration nosedives as Discovery outcomes finally see light of day

But silence on flagship Discovery scheme leaves an estimated 3,000 applicants facing Christmas limbo