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La Trobe University researchers and community volunteers have found a white-bellied whipbird in Mallee scrub, in remote north-west Victoria.

A university that had 300 applicants for its 15 bio-medicine placements says it needs more funding to meet demand and better address regional Australia's skills shortage.

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was established almost a decade ago, it was envisaged people with disability would be empowered consumers. It was hoped their customer insights would shape new services designed to meet their specific needs and preferences.

The koala was clinging to an old tree stag while stranded in the Murray River, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. A team of students from La Trobe University noticed its predicament as they were paddling by in canoes.

A social media fashion trend where people refer to their clothing style as "Naarmcore" is criticised by the Indigenous director of a clothing label, who says the Aboriginal word for Melbourne, Naarm, is being used without historical context.

Sexual assault support services say only 10 per cent of women report drink spiking. Now researchers are looking into why it's happening and what can be done about it.

The COVID-19 public health information material on two critical Victorian government websites rarely met federal government accessibility guidelines, a La Trobe University study finds.

Right from the outset, it is clear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s agenda is very different to his predecessor Scott Morrison’s – from emphasising his commitment to fighting climate change to foreign leaders in Tokyo, to displaying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at his Parliament House press conferences.

Politics can be slow-moving, until all of a sudden it isn’t. As political scientist Simon Jackman says in today’s episode of Below the Line, “politics is very non-linear. You get these steady, secular trends in voter sentiment, and then you’ll have that breakthrough election where that will convert into seats”.