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09 December 2014 -
ABC Radio National
The proposed deregulation of university fees has been blocked in the Senate but the federal
Education Minister intends to
...Education Minister intends to reintroduce the legislation. The proposed
reforms also change funding arrangements for TAFE higher education students ,
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09 December 2014 -
Leader (Epaper)
A $2 million community hub has opened in Footscray, a year into an ambitious university
town project.
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
HALF a billion smartphones could be transformed into sophisticated gas detectors through
a simple modification to cheap
...bomb detector made simple using electronic shopping tags HALF
a billion smartphones could be transformed into sophisticated gas detectors through...
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09 December 2014 -
Special Broadcasting Service - News
Labor's higher education spokesman Kim Carr is calling on the government to pull its ads
promoting university deregulation,
Anger over tax-payer funded ads promoting
university reform Labor's higher education spokesman Kim Carr is calling on the government to pull...
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09 December 2014 -
The Conversation
Postdoctoral scientists – postdocs – are the engines of biomedical research.
...heard Postdoctoral scientists postdocs are the engines of biomedical
research. Postdoctoral scientists postdocs are the engines of biomedical...
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09 December 2014 -
Kotaku Australia
Time limits on public computers are normal.
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09 December 2014 -
Australian Resources
Rio Tinto and the University of Sydney announced that they will continue their multimillion
dollar research partnership which is
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian
A WAY of detecting when people are biologically past their prime could potentially provide
a test for ageing.
...it possible to slow down the ageing process, scientists believe.
Researchers found that old "senescent" cells were likely to have 10 specific...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian
WHEN state and territory education ministers meet this week to consider the introduction
of a “back-to-basics” school
They, too, have witnessed the deterioration in the literacy and numeracy
skills of younger generations. Instead of seeing a bright new cohort of...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
BRAIN research is at a tipping point that will inexorably change the way we educate our
children, mete out justice, the
...symposium of leading neuroscientists, legal and healthcare practitioners,
policy makers, ethicists, philosophers, and other stakeholders to consider...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
FEDERATION University is expanding its course offerings in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs
at Melton and Caroline Springs.
Fed Uni encroaches on VU s west FEDERATION
University is expanding its course offerings in Melbourne s outer western suburbs at Melton and Caroline...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
THE Coalition has slammed Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s pledge to increase CSIRO funding
as a “hollow” promise from a party
...Coalition has slammed Opposition Leader Bill Shorten s pledge
to increase CSIRO funding as a hollow promise from
a party that book Mr Shorten told...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
THEY’RE styled as “lazy, entitled narcissists” fixated on fashion and fame.
...respondents said they wanted
to work in health care, social assistance, education or training, and 34 per cent expected
to wait at least four...
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09 December 2014 -
The Border Mail
STUDY suggests industry will lead jobs creation.
...University that has been welcomed on the Border with cautious optimism. The
university s Centre of Policy Studies has tipped jobs in the Ovens- Murray...
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08 December 2014 -
NewsMaker
University of Adelaide computer scientists are helping spread computer programming skills
into primary school classrooms across
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08 December 2014 -
The Conversation
Among its many problems, the Abbott government is showing distinctly cannibalistic tendencies.
...provide students with information about Australian Government assistance for
tertiary study, and the proposed higher education reforms announced...
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08 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
Fitting to a T; Truth in advertising (or maybe not); Banning the bagel.
...one let me repeat, no one is any wiser as
to the upcoming policy environment for 2016 and beyond. But one thing is
for sure competition for the...
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09 December 2014 -
NT News SmartEdition
THE Darwin Entertainment Centre has put forward its nominees for positions on the Board
of the Darwin Performing Arts.
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09 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
Zoom in on this story.
...Place an Emergency Call and ANU Professor Joan Beaumont won the Australian
history prize for Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War. For...
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09 December 2014 -
CityNews
The 2014 winners of the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize have been announced and the popular
arts organisation is congratulating itself
...The 2014 winners of the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize have been
announced and the popular arts organisation is congratulating itself that the The...
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09 December 2014 -
News Local - Penrith Press (Epaper)
MOVE TO FILMMAKING REWARDED IT WAS a language barrier that first led Dr Alejandra Canales
into the world of documentary
...1998. An actor without the language wasn t very useful, so I did a filmmaking
course at Sydney Film School to learn English, Dr Canales said.
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09 December 2014 -
Architecture & Design
Enlighten 2015 will mark the International Year of Light with a unique celebration of culture,
creativity and cuisine throughout Canberra.
Enlighten 2015 marks International Year of Light with vibrant
cultural show in Canberra Enlighten 2015 will mark the International Year of Light...
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09 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
Zoom in on this story.
...G. Milbank professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton
University, who was not involved in the study, said the researchers'
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09 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
You wouldn't steal a car... but a movie?
...illegal," Electronic Frontiers Alliance executive officer Mr Lawrence told Fairfax
Media. "Downloading something like Game of Thrones without paying...
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CELEBRATED Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan has shared top honours in the 2014 Prime Minister’s
Literary Awards.
...awards were also attended by Attorney-General and Minister for the
Arts George Brandis. The awards acknowledge the country s best fiction, non-fiction,
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09 December 2014 -
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
Hatch Your Creativity gives people with a disability the chance to express themselves through
art and culture.
...event can be the pathway to an improved life Hatch Your
Creativity gives people with a disability the chance to express themselves through
art...
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09 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
Canada and Australia's prime ministers have a shared interest in opposing climate-change
policies that would cost their countries jobs.
...on climate change", said Frank Jotzo, director of Australian National
University's Centre for Climate Economics and Policy. In November 2013,
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09 December 2014 -
The Conversation
The focus of the recently concluded G20 summit was economic growth.
has not improved. The real economy including all things that support human
well-being is much larger than the market economy estimated by GDP.
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09 December 2014 -
The Conversation
In the Art Gallery of NSW’s Pop to Popism, curator Wayne Tunncliffe has revealed himself
as a master of illusion.
How did mass media shift visual
culture? Find out at Pop to Popism In the Art Gallery of NSW s Pop to Popism, curator Wayne Tunncliffe has revealed...
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09 December 2014 -
The Conversation
There are about 30,000 professional practicing visual artists in Australia today (see note).
...inclusion of artists in curated institutional exhibitions? The role of
arts funding organisations, including the Australia Council, as well as...
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09 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
For a second time, Bill Gates has chosen a novel by the Australian writer Graeme Simsion
as one of the best books he read this year.
Bill Gates' top five
books of 2014 includes Graeme Simsion's Rosie For a second time, Bill Gates has chosen a novel by the Australian writer...
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09 December 2014 -
Tasmanian Times
Writing is often a penniless business, but two winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary
Awards have given away their prize money
...Road to the Deep North, and gave his $40,000
prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Prime Minister Tony Abbott also used Australia...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian
FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop will declare the Great Barrier Reef is not “in danger” as
she today heads off an international
Julie Bishop lobbies nations with
heritage sites to block Great Barrier Reef danger call FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop will declare the Great...
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The Adelaide Critics Circle Awards ceremony last night was soured by news that Arts SA
will stop funding the event from next year.
Curtain falls on
funding for Adelaide Critics Circle Awards in Arts SA cuts The Adelaide Critics Circle Awards ceremony last night was soured...
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09 December 2014 -
ArtsHub Australia
For Kate Cherry, Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, sharing stories
is integral.
Share a story: Black Swan State
Theatre Company For Kate Cherry, Black Swan State Theatre Company s Artistic Director, sharing stories is integral.
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09 December 2014 -
ArtsHub Australia
For its 70th anniversary in 2015, Musica Viva will bring a stellar set of musicians to
its Australian audience, including
A gift of live
music: Musica Viva presents Tafelmusik s House of Dreams For its 70th anniversary in 2015, Musica Viva will bring a stellar set...
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09 December 2014 -
ArtsHub Australia
With world premieres, modern adaptations & Australian firsts, Ensemble Theatre boasts something
for everyone in 2015.
Classic to contemporary: Ensemble
Theatre With world premieres, modern adaptations & Australian firsts, Ensemble
Theatre boasts something for...
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09 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
"Putting photography through its paces"
Justine Khamara wins $10,000 Victorian College of the
Arts travel scholarship "Putting photography through its paces" is how VCA
art school head...
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Tom Carment is one of the 10 artists selected by curator Anne Ryan for the Dobell Australian
Drawing Biennial exhibition at the
...artists selected by curator Anne Ryan for the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial
exhibition at the Art Gallery Tom Carment is one of the 10 artists...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian
WHAT is a bohemian?
With artefacts drawn largely from the library s collection, the
exhibition traces the evolution of Melbourne s subculture from the literature of...
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09 December 2014 -
The Australian
LAST week Victoria’s new Labor premier Daniel Andrews junked the longstanding tradition
of Labor ministries by ditching the arts portfolio.
Arts becomes Creative Industries under premier Daniel Andrews LAST week Victoria s
new Labor premier Daniel Andrews junked the longstanding tradition...
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THE Australian Press Council has appointed a University of Sydney law professor to replace
chairman Julian Disney when he steps
...Australian Press Council THE Australian Press Council has appointed a
University of Sydney law professor to replace chairman Julian Disney when...
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08 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
A previously unseen letter which features Jane Austen's first mention of her upcoming novel
Pride And Prejudice has gone on
...with thousands of other letters and autographs which were bequeathed to Torquay
Museum in Devon. The museum is planning to sell the letter, which...
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08 December 2014 -
Junkee
Together with HP, we’re highlighting the next generation of Australian talent we believe
are bending the rules and doing incredible things.
Further abroad and far from our shores, very well-known American
artist Richard Prince kicked up a fuss recently, with an exhibition at very...
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08 December 2014 -
InDaily
An Australian-first war memorial commemorating the efforts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders’ service has earned one of
...Organisation or Group Helpmann Academy for the visual and
performing arts Sustained contribution by an individual Shane McNeil Geoff Crowhurst...
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