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11 December 2014 -
On Line Opinion
Matthew Knott's article in The Age on Abbott government cuts university support; funds
...grabber, but it is also misleading. Second, the private
tertiary sector includes all sorts of institutions ranging from sports fitness, to naturopathy,
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11 December 2014 -
The Advocate
UTAS's asset deals with the Burnie City Council should have been better explained, Mayor Anita Dow conceded
on Tuesday night.
...funding request to the Abbott government is delivered as part of wider
tertiary sector reforms expected to go back to the Senate next year. It...
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11 December 2014 -
ABC [Riverina]
Photo: The outgoing President of the DLP, Paul Funnell, has hit out at the federal government's plan to deregulate
universities.
...says reform is needed, but more not less money is needed for the
higher education sector. "I haven't seen deregulation work in any industries...
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11 December 2014 -
The Cairns Post
COPING with rising sea levels is a priority in a new blueprint that is designed to help Far Northern communities
adapt to climate change.
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11 December 2014 -
The Conversation
After the defeat of the Abbott government’s higher education bills in the Senate, Education Minister Christopher
Pyne invoked the
...left and right After the defeat of the Abbott government s
higher education bills in the Senate, Education Minister
Christopher Pyne invoked...
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11 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
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...bionic arm for people with disabilities since graduating from the
University of Melbourne with a double degree in mechatronics and computer science...
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11 December 2014 -
The Courier
SOME graduated from Federation University and others from the University of Ballarat, but they all finished
together on
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11 December 2014 -
Newcastle Herald
For most Australian high school students, Harvard and Oxford universities exist only in Hollywood films, as
places posh people go
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11 December 2014 -
The Courier-Mail
WHO do you think you are?
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11 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
“I remember seriously thinking about doing something else because maths is such an emotional topic for me and
I had lots of
...and Mr Bruce Schmidt are with the Faculty of Education and
Arts at Federation University Australia. ROBYN BRANDENBERG, PETER SELLINGS and BRUCE...
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11 December 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
AUSTRALIAN National University’s rank as the best performing Australian university in a global ranking of graduate
employability
ANU s virtuous circle AUSTRALIAN National
University s rank as the best performing Australian university in
a global ranking of graduate employability...
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10 December 2014 -
WA Today
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...is a type of pluripotent cell, one of the most useful for
researchers and clinicians. These cells can be programmed to become any cell type in...
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10 December 2014 -
ABC News
The only undergraduate winemaking course in Western Australia has been scrapped due to falling student enrolments.
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10 December 2014 -
Bendigo Advertiser
Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters has called on La Trobe Bendigo management to limit job cuts.
...very important to our region." Ms Chesters also urged the
university to publicly condemn the government's education policies announced in the...
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10 December 2014 -
ABC [The Drum]
The Federal Government is using social media to promote its plan to deregulate university fees, but concedes
it is not possible to
Higher
education reforms: University fee uncertainty continues as Government launches Facebook page The Federal Government is using social media...
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11 December 2014 -
Gizmodo Australia
Attorney-General George Brandis and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced yesterday that they expect
...holding our breath. Nicolas Suzor is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of
Law at Queensland University of Technology. Eleanor Angel is Student fellow,
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11 December 2014 -
Parramatta Sun
Holroyd High's principal is the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2014 Human Rights Medallist.
Carol Dowling, from Noongar Radio in Perth, won the Radio
Award for Another Stolen Generation. Jayne Newling won the Literature
Award for Missing...
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11 December 2014 -
The Lead South Australia
A 7,500-year-old underwater water well that has been partially excavated from a site on Israel's Mediterranean
coast near Haifa
...to unlock more pieces of the puzzle. We hope Flinders'
Archaeology Department and University of Haifa will work together in the future to unlock...
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11 December 2014 -
The Australian - National Affairs
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull will today launch a new toolkit for the childcare and kinder sector
which teaches educators
...connecting with families and children using tools such as email,
social media and virtual tours of early childhood services, plus options for...
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11 December 2014 -
The Queensland Times
IF TODAY'S technology had been available in the 19th century, what would the world look like?
...in the workshops of scores of hobbyists, tinkerers and professional
artists. Works on display at the exhibition will include jewellery, shoes,
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11 December 2014 -
The Conversation
The world’s population could reach almost 10 billion by 2050.
Recent research by the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and
Policy at the University of Leeds and London School of Economics and Political...
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11 December 2014 -
The Conversation
Weirdness is one of the most distinctive features of Aussie cinema.
...daring and engaging than conventional cinema. The volume of digital
media being produced is diverse and difficult to categorise (and fair warning...
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11 December 2014 -
The Conversation
With more than 200 prints on display, Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration is one of the biggest printmaking
exhibitions
...exhibitions to be held in Australia. The whole top floor of Sydney s
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has been given over to this show. Very...
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11 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
A WIN-WIN SITUATION You would assume the split results in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards meant the judges
could not agree
...Deep North and Steven Carroll for A World of Other People; the
history prize went to Broken Nation by Joan Beaumont and Australia's Secret War...
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11 December 2014 -
WA Today
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...their follower counts as, in a bid to keep the photo-sharing
social network "authentic", CEO Kevin Systrom has announced that "spammy accounts"
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11 December 2014 -
WA Today
The editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper says he will step down after 20 years in the role.
...take over as chairman of The Scott Trust, which owns Guardian
Media Group and was created to safeguard its journalistic freedom. Rusbridger's...
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11 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
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...meetings, meals, exercise, parties, even work you do in public. If
architecture is the canvas for the stories of our lives, the tiny house makes most...
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11 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
A growing number of men view social issues through "gender
...men's sense of entitlement towards women A growing number of men view
social issues through "gender goggles" that illuminate how a person's gender...
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11 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
Government after government of technological illiterates is holding us back from being true champions of renewable
energy.
...of energy, Australia just won two gold medals. Martin Green at the
University of NSW announced his team had cracked a world-beating 40.4 per...
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11 December 2014 -
The Mercury
THE fight over plans to reopen tracks on the Tarkine coastline to recreational vehicles has gone global, with
an international
...recreational vehicles has gone global, with an international rock
art The International Federation of Rock Art Organisation labelled the State...
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10 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
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...to creating greener buildings. That's the view of
University of Canberra urban and regional planning chairwoman Professor Barbara Norman, who...
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10 December 2014 -
Parramatta Sun
INXS bassist Garry Beers has rejected the “hurtful allegations” his daughter published claiming the 22-year-old
media
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10 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
It's shaping up as a lively Sundance Film Festival for Australians next month with three more films and an installation
added to
...Sundance: Short Cuts It's shaping up as a lively Sundance
Film Festival for Australians next month with three more films and an installation added...
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10 December 2014 -
The Canberra Times
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...the new role following Warren's decision to retire from the
Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance leadership after 28 years in the role. Murphy...
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10 December 2014 -
Terra Daily
There is cloud hanging over climate science, but one Cornell University expert on communication and environmental
issues says he
...and co-author Adam Pearson, an assistant professor of
psychology at Pomona College, began talking about University of Michigan Professor Dorceta...
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10 December 2014 -
Department of Culture and the Arts
The Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) has released new research into participation and community attitudes
towards the
...participation. The research also uncovered further community attitudes towards the
arts including public funding and the impact on the arts in Western...
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10 December 2014 -
Maribyrnong
Sahida Ibrahim.
...University student has received a state government multicultural excellence
award for helping to break down cultural barriers through performance...
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10 December 2014 -
The Conversation
On Monday night, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced with a tie in the fiction category between
A World of Other
...by two working class boys who are making good in the world of
literature. But the awards raise some questions for me around the value of reading...
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10 December 2014 -
ABC Radio National
Marilynne Robinson lit up the literary world with her visionary novel Housekeeping in 1980, it won the Pulitzer
prize for literature.
...with her visionary novel Housekeeping in 1980, it won the Pulitzer
prize for literature. Marilynne Robinson lit up the literary world with her...
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