Victorians warned to expect months of rolling lockdowns

Victorians warned to expect months of rolling lockdowns

Medical experts say the dual threats of Sydney’s worsening outbreak and the infectiousness of the Delta variant mean Victorians are likely to spend a large portion of 2021 in lockdown.

  • byLiam Mannix,Michael Fowler andJames Massola

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Thousands of medical students ready to vaccinate at university hubs
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Thousands of medical students ready to vaccinate at university hubs

The country’s top universities have about 3500 final-year student doctors who can be deployed to help ramp up the vaccine rollout once more supply comes online.

  • byLisa Visentin
Australia set to join the mRNA vaccine revolution

Australia set to join the mRNA vaccine revolution

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of vaccine development forever.

  • byColin Pouton
Embryo research law needs tweaking to catch up with science
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Embryo research law needs tweaking to catch up with science

Australia needs to revise its legislation around research into early human life,to reflect new international recommendations and allow crucial breakthroughs to happen.

  • byJohn Carroll
Former Turnbull security adviser auditing universities’ foreign interference risks
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Former Turnbull security adviser auditing universities’ foreign interference risks

The universities of Sydney,New South Wales,Monash and Queensland have engaged former journalist and policy adviser John Garnaut to detect foreign interference risks.

  • byNick Bonyhady
Victoria’s top universities crash in student satisfaction ratings

Victoria’s top universities crash in student satisfaction ratings

Students at the University of Melbourne and Monash University have delivered a bruising assessment of their study experience during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

  • byLisa Visentin
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Scientists have created embryos. What does that mean? And what comes next?
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Scientists have created embryos. What does that mean? And what comes next?

The discoveries offer access to some of the first moments of human life – and open up a host of new ethical questions.

  • byLiam Mannix
A remarkable chance for deeper insight into one of humanity’s greatest mysteries
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A remarkable chance for deeper insight into one of humanity’s greatest mysteries

Australian researchers’ development of model embryos will ethically improve treatments for a wide range of critical medical issues.

  • byJohn Carroll
Scientists create model embryos in lab,raising major ethical questions

Scientists create model embryos in lab,raising major ethical questions

The model embryos,which use no egg or sperm,offer a chance to study the earliest days of human development,but there are calls for a debate over their status and what research can ethically be performed on them.

  • byLiam Mannix
Monash Uni academic’s article retracted over plagiarism

Monash Uni academic’s article retracted over plagiarism

An academic journal has retracted an article after an internal investigation by Monash University found a senior research fellow plagiarised a student’s work.

  • byRachael Dexter
Queensland researcher traces birth of unionism back to convicts

Queensland researcher traces birth of unionism back to convicts

Researchers are challenging the narrative that unionism was born in the 1850s with the Eureka Rebellion,saying convicts also stood up for their rights.

  • byToby Crockford