ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt warns academics to get behind uni's foreign interference policies

Sarah Basford Canales
Updated March 19 2021 - 4:15pm, first published 11:00am
ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt has told a parliamentary committee the complexities of dealing with foreign influence and interference in higher education. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt has told a parliamentary committee the complexities of dealing with foreign influence and interference in higher education. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Australian National University academics are being told to get with the program when it comes to following foreign interference policies and mitigating national security risks or be "turned off", the vice-chancellor has warned.

Sarah Basford Canales

Sarah Basford Canales

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