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There’s no point giving money to research if there’s no-one to do the research. University of Denver/Flickr

$20 billion for medical research: but who will do the research?

Laura Poole-Warren, UNSW ; Alan Dench, The University of Western Australia; Denise Cuthbert, RMIT University; Dick Strugnell, The University of Melbourne, and Zlatko Skrbis, Monash University

Including $20 billion for medical research in the recent federal budget seemed like a win for research. At the same time, however, the government imposed fees on PhD and Masters research students. Paying…
The Javanese language is in decline. EPA/Adi Weda

Loss of languages speaks volumes about changing times

Alan Dench, The University of Western Australia and Slamet Setiawan, The University of Western Australia

The manifesto of the Foundation for Endangered Languages states, quite accurately, that “There is agreement among linguists that over half of the world’s languages are not being passed on to the next generation…

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