The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has announced $300 000 funding for Peter Harrison (Southern Cross U) and Matthew Dunbabin (QUT) to propagate coral by larval reseeding.

Robert Wood is to join UTS to lead the Future Academy in the university’s business school. Professor Wood joins from UNSW. The Future Academy’s, now being planned, will “focus on helping individuals reskill and upskill.”

Sports scientist Ben Jackson from UWA is the Western Australia Young Tall Poppy for 2018.