At Uni Newcastle Natalie Dowling (Engineering and Built Environment) is elected to the university council.

Peter Leggat (James Cook U) is the new president of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine

Stephen van Leeuwen takes Curtin U’s first Indigenous Chair in Biodiversity and Environmental Science.

John Thwaites (Monash U) is a member of The Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission.