Academic insights reached millions The story that garnered the most interest from our audience in April was this piece on why new COVID variants necessitate a global ‘maximum suppression’ strategy. It has been read more than 1.1 million times! It was also republished by more than 28 other media outlets around the world - including The Guardian, ABC and the South China Morning Post. 84% of its readers were from countries outside Australia. The second most-read piece was Ritesh Chugh from CQUniversity’s piece on how to deal with water damage to your phone, which received more than 570,000 reads. Ritesh said: “As an academic, such a wide readership provides great testimony of our public scholarship”