“We will focus on reducing the total number of casual and fixed term staff where we can and offer minimal redundancies,” he said.

The university also warned it could lose about $60 million a year because of the changes outlined in the federal budget.

However, that figure did not include other measures such as the university’s capacity to raise fees under the proposed model, which has yet to pass the Senate.

The job cuts will come from professional staff with teaching and academic staff unaffected.

Professor Davis said the university had a turnover of 635 professional staff last year and 580 the year before.