In 2007, The Cancer Council Australia, with co-sponsorship from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, convened a national roundtable discussion on human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation and its impact on the National Cervical Screening Program. HPV immunisation has the potential to prevent strains of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancers. The immunisation program must...

For decades, researchers in HASS have endured a funding system that assesses their work through a narrow prism of quantity: How many papers? How much grant money? How many research students? This project set out to find a fairer way to evaluate research, by focusing on the quality and impact of the diverse outputs of...

Executive summary This report describes the commercial activities and examines the impediments and incentives facing humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) researchers and educators at the tertiary level in Australia. It is a snapshot of who is commercialising research and how they approach this task, based on the findings of focus groups and questionnaires.

After examining current practice in Australia and overseas, and analysing 22 submissions from organisations, the WG has concluded that current metrics for commercialisation of publicly funded research need to be extended to reflect a broader understanding of the commercial and economic benefits of research commercialisation. Current metrics emphasise the commercialisation of intellectual property (IP), especially...

Government subsidies have provided a major source of funds to private schools in Australia for three decades. The increasing level of private school subsidies since the mid-1970s has contributed to a steady increase in the proportion of students enrolled in private schools. This growth in the private school share of enrolments was not inevitable, but...