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Please find below today’s media monitoring update with select news from the HASS and related sectors for your reference.
ALERT: 2014 CHASS Australia Prizes - nominations closing 30 June
The Australia Prizes are designed to honour distinguished achievement by Australians working, studying or training in the HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) areas, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers and students, and
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30 April 2014 -
Australian College of Educators
Source: The Australian Universities Australia has warned that the proposal poses a threat
to the quality and reputation of the higher education system claiming that expansion to include for-profit providers “could pose a substantial risk to the reputation of the entire sector, with
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30 April 2014 -
ABC News
Related Story: NSW DPP says child sex abuse victims should be able pre-record court evidence
Related Story: Children in care locked up to protect them from abuse A leading child protection expert has warned of a rise in the number of young children sexually abusing their peers in preschool
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30 April 2014 -
Central Western Daily
A MEDICAL school for Orange, higher student fees and funding for for-profit higher education
providers - all is on the table for education in the 2014 federal budget.
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30 April 2014 -
Barossa Herald
The Barossa’s new German language revival project, led by Dr Peter Mickan, senior Linguistics
lecturer at Adelaide University has become very popular.
...German language revival project, led by Dr Peter Mickan, senior
Linguistics lecturer at Adelaide University has become very popular. The Barossa s...
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30 April 2014 -
Campus Daily
Deakin University’s School of Law has taken out one of the world’s most prestigious law
student competitions, winning the teams award in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna.
International court rules Deakin
law students best in world Deakin University s School of Law has taken out one of the world s most prestigious...
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30 April 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
FORMER New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon famously quipped that Kiwis who emigrated
to Australia raised the average IQ of both countries. The opposite happens when would-be apprentices choose university instead of trade training, a forthcoming report suggests.
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30 April 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
ANY deregulation of university fees ideally should wait until the sector is opened to
competition from private providers, and will need measures to stop excessive fee hikes, the co-author of the government’s review of the university system, Andrew Norton, has warned.
...early deregulation could lead to excessive fees ANY deregulation of
university fees ideally should wait until the sector is opened to competition...
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30 April 2014 -
The Australian - Higher Education
SPECULATION about the future direction of higher education policy and funding in Australia
is a perennial activity.
...careful what you wish for SPECULATION about the future direction of
higher education policy and funding in Australia is a perennial activity.
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29 April 2014 -
Prime 7 - Canberra
Former foreign affairs and defence minister Stephen Smith has been appointed a professor
of international law at The University of Western Australia (UWA).
...defence minister Stephen Smith has been appointed a professor of international
law at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Former foreign...
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29 April 2014 -
The Courier-Mail
EXERCISE can significantly reduce your risk of dying from heart disease even if you smoke
or are obese, a WA study has found.
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29 April 2014 -
Science in Public
Posted on behalf of Rob Robinson, President of the Australian Institute of Physics.
...to Keep it Clever Universities Australia, the peak body for our
university sector, is seeking your support to send the message that investing...
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29 April 2014 -
Altnews.asia
JINDAL SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES collaborates ROLLINS COLLEGE, USA to launch
first-of-its-kind undergraduate joint program in Liberal Arts & Humanities New Delhi, April 29th, 2014: Imagine studying for an undergraduate degree for two years in India, in one of the best new
...School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public
Policy and Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities. For any further...
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29 April 2014 -
The Conversation
Queensland has a unique approach to grading Year 11 and 12 students for entry to university.
...unique approach to grading Year 11 and 12 students for entry to
university. Queensland has a unique approach to grading Year 11 and 12 students...
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30 April 2014 -
The Canberra Times
Australian politicians and public servants tempted by bribery or corruption can soon turn
to a mobile moral compass if their own consciences are found to be wanting.
...says federal departments, states, territories and even
universities are already clamouring for the technology. Advertisement Ethicos principal...
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30 April 2014 -
Yahoo!7 News
Proposed changes to water down the Racial Discrimination Act have captured the attention
of the nation.
...intimidated." Katherine Gelber, an Associate Professor in public
policy from the University of Queensland, tells Fact Check the Racial Hatred...
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30 April 2014 -
The Australian
TELEVISION legend Ian ‘Roscoe’ Ross has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
The TV s veteran s passing has generated an outpouring of tributes on
social media. Very sad news @ChrisReason7: legend newsman Ian Ross has...
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30 April 2014 -
ABC [Radio National]
Dr Clare Wright has been awarded the 2014 Stella Prize for her book The Forgotten Rebels
of Eureka.
...the 2014 Stella Prize for her book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. The AU$50,000
prize is awarded to the best in Australian women's literature.
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30 April 2014 -
The Australian
SCRAPPING the education department and making wealthy families pay for sending their children
to public schools are two ideas being floated to help balance the country's budget.
...annually if a fee of $1000 is imposed for each child.
Research fellow Jennifer Buckingham says it's unreasonable for rich families to have access...
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30 April 2014 -
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tehching Hsieh's performance art is an endurance sport.
...limited audience. As an illegal immigrant to the the US he didn't receive any public
funding, he didn't have a gallery, he wasn't exhibiting.'' She...
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30 April 2014 -
The Conversation
Copyright has been firmly back on the agenda in recent months.
...negotiate with the content industry such as large corporate copyright holders from
music, film and publishing. The aim is to produce a voluntary...
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30 April 2014 -
The Conversation
A rich inventory of monstrous figures exists throughout Aboriginal Australia.
...trope of metamorphosis is evident in the real-life stories and
media representations in Australia s dominant culture: consider the image of the...
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30 April 2014 -
The Conversation
Sociology influences medicine more than we like to admit.
...like to admit. One only needs to look at the
history of psychiatric disorders a term used broadly here to incorporate developmental disorders...
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30 April 2014 -
The Conversation
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public
broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape.
Due to Australia s small population and high concentration of few
media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media...
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30 April 2014 -
The Conversation
The American reviews of Yukari Iwatani Kane’s book Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs
have not been kind.
...Jobs and Tim Cook and the significant events of Apple s recent
history. These events served to illustrate the bullying, uninnovative, megalith...
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30 April 2014 -
ABC [Newcastle]
An audit of Newcastle's controversial art gallery redevelopment has revealed an 84 per
cent cost blowout of the initial design contract.
Audit reveals cost blowout of Newcastle
art gallery redevelopment An audit of Newcastle's controversial art gallery redevelopment has revealed...
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30 April 2014 -
ArtsHub Australia
Three of Australia's most talented sopranos will perform a unique collaboration of opera
classics and rock anthems in Sirens at the Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centre on Thursday 1 May.
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30 April 2014 -
Business Insider Australia
Don’t get too excited about Popcorn Time, a controversial new streaming app the tech industry
has called the “Netflix for pirated movies.
...Jim Gibson, director of the Intellectual Property Institute at the
University of Richmond law school. Their biggest legal problem is that they...
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30 April 2014 -
West Australian
Artworks by Bob Dylan, from the singer-songwriter's Drawn Blank limited-edition print
series, will be exhibited in Perth this week for the first time in Australia.
...2008, which fetched prices up to $1 million at London's Halcyon
Gallery in 2010. An exhibition of pastel portraits by Dylan was held at the National...
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30 April 2014 -
Business Insider Australia
The Marxist Internet Archive, a non-profit online library of Communist texts, has received
a copyright violation notice from a publishing house called Lawrence & Wishart asking for the site to remove all material from a book called Marx and Engels Collected Works (via MetaFilter).
...and a small, ill-paid staff. Alex Golub, an associate professor of
anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, writes that [a]t the end...
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30 April 2014 -
Parkes Champion-Post
A special theatre group in Melbourne is raising funds to come to Parkes especially for
the 2015 Elvis Festival.
Fund raising to get Sparc
Theatre members here for Elvis Festival A special theatre group in Melbourne is raising funds to come to Parkes especially...
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30 April 2014 -
Central Western Daily
THE emotions surrounding war will be on display for the next two weeks, with five young
artists’ work included in an exhibition.
...will be on display for the next two weeks, with five young
artists work included in an exhibition. THE emotions surrounding war will be on display...
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30 April 2014 -
The Canberra Times
''Success is not the right word to describe it, but I'm happy with what I've done.
...Victoria has done nothing to bloat the ego of the 98-year-old
artist. King's works includes some of Melbourne's most visible pieces of public...
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30 April 2014 -
The Canberra Times
As prizes poured in, quiz-show champion Margaret Lawrence was inclined to give much of
her money away.
...an oration from Barry Jones. Philanthropy is woven into the fabric of the
arts in Melbourne, and it's hard to imagine a local culture without...
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30 April 2014 -
Bendigo Advertiser
NOT FINISHED. THE Bendigo Art Gallery has unveiled a new sculpture.
Bendigo
Art Gallery unveils public sculpture NOT FINISHED. THE Bendigo Art Gallery has unveiled a new sculpture. NOT FINISHED. THE Bendigo
Art...
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30 April 2014 -
NewsBlaze
When it comes to the lives of almost 3,000 Americans, does anyone remotely care what some
Muslim doesn't like about the museum dedicated to their memory?
...of a story, then speaks his mind. His BS in
journalism from University of Oregon with minors in political science and American
history stands...
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30 April 2014 -
The Canberra Times
(0) More than 160,000 people visited the Gold and the Incas: Lost worlds of Peru exhibition
at the National Gallery of Australia, injecting an estimated $33.5 million into the ACT economy.
...160,000 people visited the Gold and the Incas: Lost worlds of Peru
exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, injecting an estimated $33.5
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30 April 2014 -
The Courier-Mail - Quest News
IT’S Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before — and it is coming to a pub near you.
Classically-trained actors will perform Shakespeare while drunk for the Anywhere
Theatre Festival IT S Shakespeare as you ve never seen it before and...
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30 April 2014 -
The Australian - National Affairs
THE Napthine government has thrown a $10 million lifeline to Arts Centre Melbourne, the
state’s premier performing arts venue that posted a $7.2 million deficit last year.
Napthine to the rescue with $10m for
arts site THE Napthine government has thrown a $10 million lifeline to
Arts Centre Melbourne, the state...
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29 April 2014 -
The Examiner
IMAGES of gas pipeworks may not be the usual exhibition material.
...showcase just that, as well as student drawings. The pop-up
gallery exhibition will be held at 105 George Street, Launceston, and will be open...
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29 April 2014 -
Newcastle Herald
FREE entry to Newcastle Art Gallery and Newcastle Museum will end under a new set of fees
and charges proposed by Newcastle City Council.
$5 entry fee floated for
art gallery and museum FREE entry to Newcastle Art Gallery and Newcastle Museum will end under a new set of fees and...
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29 April 2014 -
Weekly Times Now
THIS year’s NGV Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Italian Masterpieces from Spain’s
Royal Court, Museo del Prado, offers a rare chance to see some of the finest works of the Italian masters collected for the royal court of Spain from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
...Nacional del Prado, Madrid, in association with the National
Gallery of Victoria and Art Exhibitions Australia, the exhibition features some...
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29 April 2014 -
Asia - ABC Radio Australia
When Ronny Chieng couldn’t turn his double degree into paid employment he kept busy doing
the thing he loved - comedy. Now the ‘suits’ are paying him to make them laugh.
...was because of a cruel reality. Despite double degrees in Commerce and
Law from the University of Melbourne, Ronny Chieng couldn t get a job...
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29 April 2014 -
The AU Review
All That Matters 2014 has announced the full details and additional artists for the fourth
edition of the largest music festival in Asia, Music Matters Live with HP.
Music Matters Live with HP 2014 releases more
artists on lineup All That Matters 2014 has announced the full details and additional
artists for...
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29 April 2014 -
Desktop | The Culture of Design
26 characters from children’s literature have been re-imagined by 26 writers and 26 illustrators,
in a small book supporting the The Story Museum’s 26 Characters exhibition.
in a small book supporting the The Story Museum s 26 Characters
exhibition. 26 characters from children s literature have been re-imagined by...
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