The Prime Minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, which will allow room for religious schools to refuse to hire gay teachers, is “necessary” to protect people with faith from the “bots, bigots and bullies” of the “cancel culture”. Scott Morrison personally introduced ...

Another horror week for the university sector ends with RMIT admitting underpaying thousands of casual staff members and agreeing to pay back approximately $10 million. This week has seen Monash university fight further accusations of wage theft and Federation University ...

A nutritious diet could be more effective than drugs in preventing stroke, diabetes and heart disease, a new University of Sydney study has found. The research, published in Cell Metabolism, tested different combinations of three anti-ageing drugs with various mixtures of ...

Federation University in Victoria will cut the number of its schools by half and offer redundancies to all permanent staff, according to reports from The Age. Staff were told about the restructuring on Monday and will now have until January ...

A new study has found evidence that an Iron deficiency in the brain could be an important factor in developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the University of Adelaide were studying the mutations in a small number of genes associated with ...

Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...

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 ...

After nearly two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is perhaps no surprise that something related to it has been chosen as the Australian National Dictionary Centre’s word of the year. But while ‘pandemic’, ‘iso’ or ‘uncertainty’ could ...

Australian universities continue to punch well above their weight, as a new ranking puts Australia third for the number of universities it has in the global top 200. The Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) 2021 rates universities by their ...

Three Australian university student teams have been awarded a total of $US750,000 ($A1,00,000) as some of the winners of the XPRIZE carbon removal student competition, sponsored by Tesla founder and tech billionaire Elon Musk. The four-year global competition recognised student ...