A harmful parasite was found in freshwater fish last week by a team of researchers, sparking an urgent call for more university research funding. Charles Sturt University researchers, in collaboration with NSW Department of Primary Industries and the Narrandera Fisheries ...

The Productivity Commission is calling on universities to make it easier for academics to work in consultancy roles with industry and government so the latter two groups can gain more benefit from university-sourced innovation and knowledge. In a new interim ...

A key federal government research body, the National Health and Medical Research Council, has struck a blow for open inquiry by requiring all scholarly work it funds to be freely available as soon as it is published. The new rule, ...