The minimum threshold for repayments to start would be lifted by more than $10,000 a year, from about $54,000 in 2024-25 to $67.000 in 2025-26.

One recent study reveals even small improvements in fitness were linked to improved teen mental health.

The rate in the September quarter dropped to 2.8%, putting it for the first time within the Reserve Bank’s target range of two-point-something since the March quarter of 2020.

China understands national interest as being advanced by favourable outcomes, by reducing the possibility of unfavourable outcomes — and by reducing the space for disagreement or dissent.

The discussion was chaired by the University of the South Pacific’s associate professor in Pacific journalism, Dr Shailendra Singh, a member of the editorial board of the National Security Defence Review (NSDR).

The inquiry examined the health and economic responses; while it did not directly delve into the state responses, it did cover the federal-state interface.

Depreciation of the kina, while painful for urban residents, helps rural producers earn more for their coffee exports and helps make their vegetable sales more competitive against imports.

These cases, and many others, all demonstrate that economic and sexual exploitation can commingle for migrant workers.

Sports betting, in particular, is getting faster with in-play betting and microbetting.

The main round of university offers is in December-January, after students have done their final exams in the previous October and November and have their final results or ATAR.