Australian and UK parties welcome a research facility (10)
I believe the answer is:
laboratory
'research facility' is the definition.
(I know that research facility can be written as laboratory)
'australian and uk parties welcome a' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'australian' could be 'abo' (Abo is an example) and 'abo' is located in the answer.
'a' is within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for laboratory that I've seen before include "Where one investigates" , "Where litmus paper could be" , "Experimental area" , "Language-learning facility" , "Where researchers work" .)