"The number of Australian 🇦🇺 students enrolling in PhDs has declined by almost 10% in less than a decade [...] with skyrocketing living costs and a lack of government support acting as major deterrents for potential candidates, almost 60% of whom are women." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
PhD student Jesse Gardner-Russell earns $20 an hour. Experts say low pay is turning Australia’s best and brightest away