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Alarmist media reporting on COVID-19 will raise anxiety and vaccine hesitancy

Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne From an ethics perspective, it has been a bad couple of weeks for media coverage of COVID-19. First, there was...

Does India need a ‘Central Vista Project’ in this pandemic?

Should Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Central Vista Project' be stopped? This is a big question on everyone's mind and people want an answer. The...

Market Mantra: Is this a good time to invest, here are some answers

Australian shares showed signs of recovery on Friday and moved higher, the benchmark index posted its biggest weekly drop in 11 weeks. The three...

The crisis in India is an example of why we need a better way to get Australians home

Liz Hicks, The University of Melbourne The federal government’s suspension of flights from India leaves some 9,000 Australian citizens stranded, 650 of whom are registered...

As Universities eye more ‘Instagram-worthy’ campus experiences, they shouldn’t treat online teaching as a cheap and easy option

Elisa Bone, The University of Melbourne The times they are a-changin’ for higher education. Or so say a growing number of commentators. They see COVID-19...

Education funding is unfair — and public schools asking parents to chip in makes it worse

Anna Hogan, Queensland University of Technology We have estimated around $8 billion of non-government or private funding flows through Australia’s school system each year —...

As one student gets out of bed, another gets in: thousands are ‘hot-bedding’ in Australia

Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney; Catherine Hastings, University of Technology Sydney, and Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney International students commonly share bedrooms so they...

Democratic Values rally behind the QUAD Alliance

Op-ed: In the post-corona world order, countries are willing to give a shot to Globalisation pivoted on democratic values and not profits alone. The...

Weaponising misinformation in Kashmir debate

There is a need to keep a resolute defence and step up to battle against this new campaign.

COVID is keeping us in our homes, but what makes working there success or failure?

Abbas Shieh, Islamic Azad University and Robert Freestone, UNSW The industrial revolution transformed cities, resulting in places of residence and work becoming more distant than...

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Albanese government under fire after ISIS brides and childern granted passports and attempted to returns

The incident has triggered alarm after it emerged that Australian passports had already been issued to the group

‘Just as offensive’: Julian Hill condemns Jacinta Price as she returns to frontbench without apology over Indian migration remarks

"Jacinta Price’s comments about Australians of Indian heritage were wrong and are just as offensive today as they were the first time she said them.”

ACT Premier Andrew Barr calls India ‘priority partner’ as Australia’s ‘knowledge capital’ eyes tourism and international students

“This mission is about building on that partnership so that Indian students, visitors and investors continue to see Canberra as a place where they can study, visit, invest and build a future.”
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