Australia's representative university organisation has proposed a 'shake-up' of research funding, blaming Canberra for endemic job insecurity that has infuriated the academic union. In a prepared speech to a conference organised by the university employer association, Universities Australia (UA) chief executive Catriona Jackson will link precarity in the university workforce with uncertainty in research funding. The speech relates how declining investment from business and the Commonwealth, with government research spending slumping below 0.

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