It became a publicly funded post-secondary college in 1979 and was upgraded to a degree-awarding institution in 1992.
Concern at the speed of scientific progress had previously stalled publicly funded research into contentious topics, for example, into in vitro fertilisation.
A multilateral agreement where signatories would place into the public domain, or find other means of sharing at modest cost, the results of largely publicly funded research.
The controversial ranking system for the nation's38 publicly funded universities will be used by the Howard Government to reward the best-performing teaching universities with an extra$250 million in funding"( Illing, D2005).
