The Defence Department will give 100 PhD students a three to six-month internship to work on national security “challenges.” The programme will run for four years and is funded by an internship programme for women in STEM. Presumably this means the Defence interns will all be women, although Defence Industry Minister Pyne’s announcement is silent on gender.
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