Australia & NZ News

ViewAustralia launches AI ethics network

Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network will help businesses and researchers avoid pitfalls of next-generation technology

ViewAustralia news roundup: 14-20 March

This week: defence innovation, museum fellowships, animal welfare grants and student equity

ViewNew host sought for national centre of teaching excellence

New Zealand-wide higher education centre needs “to stay fit for purpose in today’s environment”

ViewAcademy raises skills doubts after Aukus submarine announcement

Hundreds of billions of dollars earmarked for two-track Australian nuclear-powered submarine plan

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 9-15 March

This week: RNA development, a drug approval and a Performance-Based Research Fund appointment

ViewNational Reconstruction Fund moves closer to creation

Australian Senate report backs A$15 billion R&D and manufacturing fund

ViewMassey to train Fijian veterinary students

New Zealand announces cooperation programme prompted by biosecurity concerns

View‘New conversation needed’ on China studies in Australia

Lack of coordination and chilling effect of security concerns hamper bilateral understanding, academy says

ViewAustralian-US artificial intelligence projects launched

CSIRO and NSF fund collaborative work as leading researchers call for an Australian AI strategy

ViewAustralia news roundup: 7-13 March

This week: a commercialisation package, staff underpayment and support for the Voice to Parliament

ViewFixing broken pipes

Australia’s students and universities frustrated by visa processes, but government looks ahead to future

ViewNew Zealand to put €19m into Horizon Europe

Agreement details financial contributions of first far-flung country expected to join EU R&D programme

ViewFrom the archive: The forward-thinking history funder

The Gerda Henkel Foundation is an international funder with a straightforward approach

ViewNew Zealand Covid-19 vaccine works, alliance says

Vaccine alliance is seeking private support to progress beyond phase one trials

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 2-8 March

This week: Te Pūnaha Matatini principal investigators, an Auckland appointment and a Scott Base date

ViewAustralian universities achieved record surplus in 2021

Department of Education report outlines bumper year, with surplus much higher than pre-pandemic levels

ViewFix access and research funding, review panel told

Submissions to Australian Universities Accord review focus on funding and equality

ViewAustralia news roundup: 28 February to 6 March

This week: a review of universities in Western Australia, a data framework and genomics advances

ViewResearchers fear poor response rates in New Zealand census

Rural and marginalised communities urged to complete census to help with future planning

ViewResearch collaboration takes two, Australian conference hears

Participants call for clear rules and shared language to make industry-university partnerships work

ViewUniversities ‘must balance openness with security’

Australian higher education conference discusses threats to free and open exchange

ViewOpportunity profile: The thinking person’s postdoc placement

The cognition-focused Fyssen Foundation supports early career researchers moving to or from France

ViewMy winning proposal: Becoming an Einstein fellow

Little-known scheme offers six-month stays for research and reflection at the physicist’s summerhouse

ViewSuperbugs need united response, say Australian scientists

CSIRO report criticises data siloes, poor community understanding and lack of coordination

ViewAustralian defence sector ‘needs university help’

Fast-changing environment and nuclear-powered submarine project require stronger workforce, defence scientist says

ViewTread gently in wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, researchers told

New Zealand post-disaster guidelines urge sensitivity and warn against causing further stress to victims

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 23 February to 1 March

This week: Auckland unrest, health spending, gender equality and sustainable development

ViewNew Zealand researchers ‘playing important role in global AI’

Applications from court sentencing to conservation are being explored

ViewTrust in the ARC has been lost, review leader says

Margaret Sheil says Australian Research Council must win trust back after “political interference”

ViewChief scientist to lead discussions on national research priorities

Cathy Foley will report on Australia’s challenges, strengths and opportunities