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This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Lachlan Dick is an undergrad at the University of Tasmania about to embark on a scientific adventure ...

This is Campus Review's 2017 Federal Budget blog. It is best read up from the bottom of the page. Email the news editor with your thoughts. For our final entry today – Wednesday 10 May 2017 – we return to ...

The federal government’s plans for the university sector are not in the long-term interests of Australia or its economy. After years of economic growth, Australia is struggling to improve quality of life within tight fiscal constraints. But it still has ...

In 2003, Tasmania became the first state in Australia to repeal the use of "gay panic" as a provocation defence; and in March 2017, Queensland became the latest state to revoke its use. This leaves South Australia at odds with ...

Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going on to work for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the precursor of the CSIRO. She was a staunch political ...

Thousands of students at Sage Institute’s network of colleges have been told they will be given help to find a new college to continue their studies after administrators closed their campuses. The Australian Careers Institute, which owns the Sage Institutes ...

In 2017, there are Australian universities that still haven’t appointed a single woman to the position of professor of mathematics, a renowned mathematician has said in her keynote speech. And what grinds the gears of professor Nalini Joshi, the University ...

The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...

The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Alison Shapcott from the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has just returned from Madagascar, where she has ...