The National Health and Medical Research Council has announced $197m in new research grants. As usual the six Group of Eight universities with big med research programmes scooped up the cash, accounting for 60 per cent or so of the funding, with 34 universities and research institutions sharing the rest. The top six figure is even higher when related research bodies are added.

UniMelbourne: $26,582,081

Monash U:  $22,789,350

UniSydney: $22,518,589

UNSW: $18,532,371

UofQueensland: $13,534,872

UniAdelaide: $8,276,222

Macquarie U: $7,376,724

Murdoch Children’s Res Inst: $6,376,825

UniNewcastle: $6,024 757

Walter and Eliza Hall: $5, 394,770

Queensland Inst Med Res: $5,099,767

ANU: $4,839,454

UWA: $4,348,629

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes: $4,178,130

La Trobe U: $3,886,148

UniSA: $3,677,315

UniWollongong: $2,930,672

Macfarlane Burnett Institute: $2,762,956

Garvan Institute: $2,626,353

:James Cook U: $2,519,222

Flinders U: $2,497,978

NSW Cancer Council: $2,486,383

Menzies School Health Res: $  2,381,699

Griffith U:$  2,194,446

Florey Institute: $1,937,325

The George Institute: $  1,631,910

Victor Chang Cardiac Res Inst: $  1,549,080

Curtin U: $1,478,076

Deakin U: $1,116,938

SAHMRI: $1,038,924

UTS: $849,540

Centre for Eye Research: $707,370

UniTas: $637,536

ACU: $431,000

Victoria U: $431,000

Institute for Breathing and Sleep: $329,822

Murdoch U: $318,768

QUT: $318,768

St Vincent’s Inst Med Res: $318,768

Swinburne U: $318,768