The country’s biggest universities say they are “under assault” and have launched an extraordinary attack on the Morrison government over a fresh round of cuts to academic research.

Vice-chancellors are furious about a $134 million raid on research funding to pay for student places at regional universities – as well as other Coalition measures in the works including a free speech blitz, a “national interest test” for research grants and a new tax on enrolments.

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