Tag: Group of Eight

ITAR barriers come down as AUKUS tech trade reforms pass

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Controversial legislation that creates a licence-free environment for technology sharing between Australia and the United States and United Kingdom has passed Parliament with amendments that bake in exemptions for...

Ring fence basic research funding in ARC overhaul

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Government funding for blue sky research should be protected by a legislated ring-fence in order to reverse decades of decline and to “feed the very beginning” of the innovation...

Unis call for national research and innovation agency

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s research heavy universities have called for a new national innovation agency and research strategy as part of generational higher education reforms, warning institutions can’t keep taking a 45...

Unis demand slice of NRF to fund more commercialisation

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund should be used to rebalance the way Australian research and development has been supported in Australia after a decade of business tax...

Beijing’s Catch-22 for Aust unis

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The independence of Australian and other western universities with fully-fledged sister universities, joint ventures, campuses and research institutes in China is under attack from Beijing after Xi Jinping’s regime...