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Curtin University in Perth has threatened to withdraw support for the Bentley campus bar’s liquor licence after student protests over a new 9pm closing time. The university set the restriction following a string of assaults at the Curtin Student Guild-operated ...

An academic from La Trobe University has received a $247,000 research grant from the US National Institute of Justice to study lone-wolf terrorism. Senior research fellow Dr Ramon Spaaij (pictured) and his co-investigator Mark Hamm – a renowned professor of ...

In a major breakthrough, an international team of researchers including an Australian academic have pinpointed the timing of our planet’s largest volcanic eruption of the past two million years. [[IMG:lenggongvalleydrilling]] Professor Richard “Bert” Roberts from the University of Wollongong said ...

"The road map that this paper lays out will enable Australia to make the most of the immense opportunity that the Asian Century represents." The vice-chancellor of Monash University, Professor Ed Byrne AO, has congratulated Prime Minister Julia Gillard and ...

Jennifer Peasley is La Trobe University’s new librarian. Currently deputy librarian at Macquarie University, her impressive achievements there include the delivery of a new state-of-the-art library building using automated storage and retrieval systems, as well as the development of the ...

Professor Tom Marwick has been welcomed by the University of Tasmania as the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania’s new director. Marwick has an outstanding record in both medical research and research leadership in Australia and internationally, and has a strong interest ...

Professor Anthony Elliot has started work as the new director of the University of South Australia’s Hawke Research Institute, where he will provide leadership for an enhanced program of publically engaged social science, both in Australia and globally. A world-renowned ...

Monash University has appointed renowned researcher and legal consultant Professor Bryan Horrigan as the new dean of the faculty of law. Horrigan currently holds the Louis Waller chair of law within the faculty and is also the associate dean (research). ...

Maori and migrant communities will soon form New Zealand’s majority – but the system is failing them. Two strands of discussion have come together this week in New Zealand, in much the same way as they did in Australia a ...

A species of lizard discovered recently hidden among the sand dunes outside Perth is facing extinction as its surroundings are destroyed by urban development, scientists warn. Researchers from the Australian National University found the 6cm-long Ctenotus ora or the coastal ...