Western Australian universities have continued to overly rely on international students for their financial performance, the state's auditor general finds.
A former Murdoch University maintenance manager has been put behind bars for siphoning more than $1 million worth of work to his wife and friend's company.
The federal government has finalised the international student allocations for 2026, with Western Australia receiving 10 per cent of the additional places for universities.
Stan Perron Charitable Foundation's commitment to Perth Children's Hospital's rare and undiagnosed disease centre is one of the largest philanthropic donations in Western Australia.
Plant leather belts, food, and supplements could be made using spent malt from WA's breweries, with research underway to figure out how to value-add the waste product.
Polystyrene boxes for seafood transportation could be replaced by a biodegradable option from wheat straw, under work done by Murdoch University, CSIRO and a Perth biotech.
Some Western Australian universities have weighed in and welcomed the federal government's increased threshold for international students' intake for 2026.
This week's appointments include Professor Merrilee Needham, Marcus Canning, Ben Morton, Ross Carroll, Lawrie Tremaine, Jason Fletcher, and Vik Bansal.
Winners at this year's Western Australian of the Year awards include land developer Nigel Satterley, scientist Sue Fletcher and wheelchair charity founder Olly Pickett.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Chris Paull, Jo Monery, David Andrew, Charmaine Lamprecht, Nicola Spicer, Meg O'Neill, Tanya Rybarczyk and Bep Uink.
A bioplastics innovation hub aimed at placing WA at the forefront of the national war on plastic has been unveiled at Murdoch University, in partnership with the CSIRO.
The partnership aims commercialise environmentally friendly concrete solutions in an industry responsible for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions.
WA grains breeder InterGrain will lead a new federal-funded oats research consortium designed to cement Australia's position as a high quality and valued added oat producer.
The Workforce Gender Equality Agency has published gender pay gap data on more than 400 WA private sector companies, shedding a light on remuneration disparities.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Katherin Domansky, David Joyce, Rob Bransby, Martin Anda, Melissa Su-Wei Teo, Sheldon Day, Pete Adams, Dave Clow, Rachel Lee, Michael Hood, Zac Wood and John Toll.
An incident where a public hospital employee allegedly exploited loopholes to obtain more than $280,000 has led the Corruption and Crime Commission to call for possible prosecution.
West Perth building materials firm ClearVue has heralded its first Australian product sale, which will involve the installation of power-generating windows on a new union building in Melbourne's inner suburbs.
Structural fallout after COVID-19, subdued investment, and overseas competition are likely behind universities' mixed performance in a recent world ranking.
Murdoch University has outlined a plan to build a health-related mixed-use development on vacant land neighbouring Hesperia's latest project near the Murdoch hospital precinct.
Perron Institute postdoctoral researcher Oliver Li has won a grant valued at more than $500,000 to lead a research project developing effective treatment for motor neurone disease.
Local scientists have won significant funding from the US military because its veterans are more likely to suffer from a debilitating motor neurone disease they are researching.
Most of Australia's universities have moved substantially higher on a major global ranking, with three into the top 20 but one dropping down the list after a change in criteria.
