The Trump administration cut almost $1 million funding from Australian National University research into terrorism and targeted violence because it no longer achieved the US Department of Homeland Security’s priorities.

Meanwhile, ANU staff lodged a vote of no confidence against vice chancellor Genevieve Bell and her boss, Julie Bishop, on Thursday. More than 800 of the university’s 4000 staff participated in a union-led vote in which 95 per cent of respondents said they did not have confidence in Bell, who is presiding over a $250 million restructure, and Bishop.