The first Australian lab to manufacture the mRNA vaccine has some good news for those concerned about the efficacy of the Covid-19 jab against the new Omicron variant. The Monash University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on Tuesday said it was well prepared ...

Two-in-five Australians think they’ll likely get Covid, according to a new survey, as the number of people reporting “severe” psychological stress has dramatically jumped. Australian National University researchers surveyed almost 3500 adults and found 40 per cent believe they are likely or ...

Australians have become less trusting of how governments and companies use their private data following two years of using check-in apps during the Covid-19 pandemic. New analysis from the Australian National University shows people’s trust in major institutions to maintain data privacy ...

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 ...

Experts from the University of Sydney claim Covid-19 cases could surge to 40,000 a day across Australia if state governments throw all restrictions out the window when 80 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated. Although NSW appears to be past ...

The Victorian government has become the latest to submit formal plans to get international students back into Australian institutions. Overseas students will start coming to Victoria by the end of this year under the 'Victorian Government’s Student Arrivals Plan', which ...

Lockdowns associated with the pandemic and a move away from traditional in-store sales to online purchases has seen demand for RMIT Online's masters programs jump significantly, particularly in the fields of logistics and data science.  With the explosion of “big ...

The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) survey program, including the 2021 Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS), has just been released, highlighting the ongoing effect the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Australian labour market as well as sharp differences ...

A Monash University expert in discrimination law and tort law has said that so-called “no jab, no entry” policies do not constitute discrimination, despite some claiming the contrary. Liam Elphick, an associate lecturer in the faculty of law at Monash, ...

More than half (59 per cent) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) adults are at a high level of “developing severe illness from COVID-19”, resulting from inequities in health, a study led by ANU has found.  Health factors including ...