These PhD students ran the parliamentary petition, that got almost 15,000 signatures, simply asking to raise the stipend TO THE MINIMUM WAGE. Frankly, this is emblematic of where the whole research funding situation sits in Australia right now. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

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