US efforts to sway Australia’s research direction through thematic cuts to funding fall outside the remit of a federal government taskforce set up to counter foreign interference in universities, Senate Estimates has heard. Government officials on Thursday ruled out any action by the University Foreign Interference Taskforce (UFIT), arguing the “overt” demands of the Trump…

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