The succession of restriction-easing announcements from our most affected states, and the case-free landscape in others, adds to the sense that this might be the end of lockdowns. Talk in universities is of fuller returns to campus, and returning international ...
More »UQ: Labor pain could soon be treated by water injections
Women in Labor could soon have another alternative for pain relief — water. Researchers at the University of Queensland are conducting research into whether labor pain could be reduced by water injections thanks to a new round of federal funding. ...
More »Heavily redacted documents reveal the ‘disturbing’ details of a NSW animal experiment
An experiment in NSW where dogs and cats were forced to endure being bitten by up to 50 paralysis ticks led to fears of a “disturbing” biosecurity breach, NCA NewsWire can reveal. The experiment, which involved putting the animals into ...
More »USyd accused of wage theft by casual staff
Wage theft accusations are following the University of Sydney again this week, as 80 casual staff allege that they have been underpaid by millions over a six-year period. Over the last two years more than twelve Australian universities have been, ...
More »Coronavirus: Government wins landmark Covid mandatory jab lawsuit
The NSW government has won a landmark Supreme Court challenge to the state’s lockdown measures to combat the Covid outbreak. Two sets of plaintiffs – who all refused to be vaccinated – filed civil suits asking for various aspects of ...
More »YourGround: New study allows Melbourne women to plot unsafe streets, parks
A new study has allowed Victorian women to plot the locations and streets where they feel most unsafe. The crowdsourYourGroundced survey by Monash University’s XYX Lab and digital consultancy CrowdSpot received more than 6000 public submissions from women and gender-diverse in just a ...
More »Universities depend on safe and secure IT infrastructures more than ever, but who will be left behind?
Pre-pandemic, there was already widespread acknowledgement that the traditional higher education business model was seriously outdated. 2020 represented a tipping point as all Australian universities were forced to shift to either fully remote learning or hybrid learning, a trend that ...
More »Former JCU academic Peter Ridd loses High Court case, but academic freedom gets a win
The High Court has upheld the sacking of controversial academic Dr Peter Ridd by James Cook University, putting an end to a near four-year battle. On Wednesday, the five justices of the High Court unanimously dismissed Dr Ridd’s appeal, but ...
More »Australia to be completely cashless in a decade, experts predict
Australia will become fully cashless by 2031 as Covid-19 hastens the death of physical currency, according to most experts surveyed by Finder. The comparison website surveyed 25 experts and 14, or 56 per cent, said they believed the nation was ...
More »The University of Hong Kong orders Tiananmen statue, ‘The Pillar of Shame’, be removed from campus
A statue at the University of Hong Kong commemorating the massacre at Tiananmen Square must be taken down, the university says. The Pillar of Shame stands eight metres tall and is an imposing monument to the demonstrators who lost their ...
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