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Student organisations

• The national Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), with which the AUPGSA is affiliated
• The National Indigenous Postgraduate Association Aboriginal Corporation (NIPAAC)
• The National Union of Students (NUS)
• The National Liaison Committee (NLC) for international students
• Australasian Network of Students with Disabilties (ANSWD).

Academic organisations

• The National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU)
• The Group of Eight (Go8) leading research-intensive universities in Australia (of which the University of Adelaide is a member)
• The National Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (CHASS)
• The Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS)
• Universities Australia (UA) (formerly the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee), the national representative body of Australian universities

Academic news

• University World News
• The Australian newspaper's weekly Higher Education Supplement (HES) (published as a liftout each Wednesday)
• Campus Review, the leading magazine in Australian higher education
• The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), the leading newspaper in British higher education 
• Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR), a biennial Australian conference on issues in research education

Academic jobs and careers

• UniJobs, Australia's University jobs website
• Academic Careers Online (ACO), a free online database of academic jobs available around the world
• CareerOne

Electronic resources

• JASON, a national database of postgraduate scholarships (including travel scholarships)
• The Graduate Junction, an international network of postgraduates and young researchers
• ScholarzNet, an international network of postgraduates, fully integrated into a free software package to manage your personal research
• Wikipedia

Government resources

• Department of Education, Science & Training (DEST)
• For researchers
• For postgraduates
• For international students
• For indigenous students

A drug is a substance that, when injected into a guinea pig, produces a scientific paper.

- Anonymous

Irreproducible research too often leads to great discoveries.

- The Journal of Irreproducible Results (which is closely linked to the Ignobel Prizes)

Statistics: The mathematical theory of ignorance.

- Mathematical Maxims and Minims (1988), by American mathematician Franz Kline

Science is like sex:  It may be useful, but that isn't why we [scientists] do it.