The Cashcow Helping to Fund Australia’s Vaccine Hunt Is Endangered

Leading a team of scientists at the University of Queensland in what has been framed as Australia’s best shot at a Covid-19 vaccine, Paul Young has plenty to worry about: from competition with other vaccine hopefuls to unexpected clinical results that could derail everything.

But there’s another concern that has little to do with science and all to do with economics -- a research funding crisis years in the making that’s been exacerbated by the very pandemic Young is trying to stop. With the government scaling back investment in research, universities have come to rely on a flow of international students that have now been frozen out of the country to stem the virus’s spread.

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