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Freedom for Life or Life for Freedom: Celebrating India’s 77th Independence Day

The freedom is to choose between life and death, and the freedom also lies, in demanding through democratic institutions, denied spaces of empowerment.

Seeing both poles of Australia and the Pacific Islands

Despite leadership-level scuffles, both reports demonstrate that respondents appreciate Australia–Pacific ties.

Why do Indigenous students need bilingual teaching at school?

About 68% of Indigenous people aged 20–24 years had attained Year 12 or equivalent as of 2021, with a target of 96% by 2031.

20% of young people who forwarded nudes say they had permission – but only 8% gave it!

The figures are slightly higher among lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals.

What makes students feel like they belong at university?

The pandemic and the move to more online teaching certainly had an impact on belonging.

Australia should offer our ‘Pacific family’ access rather than simply reacting to China

July has already seen Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare visit China, French President Emmanuel Macron visit Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit Tonga (Australia and New Zealand).

Distorting, misrepresenting and manipulating history through narratives

The readers should know the historical background and ideology of the historian before looking into their writings to understand the motives, dislikes, ambitions or passion of their historical writings.

We need more than a definition change to fix Australia’s culture of permanent ‘casual’ work

Almost 60% of “casuals” had been in the job for more than a year. About 80% expected to still be there in a year’s time.

Let’s take a Free Walking Tour of Melbourne

We'd walked in Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Rotterdam with Free Walking Tour groups, but never in Melbourne!

myTax is fast and free – so why do 2 in 3 Australians still pay to lodge a tax return?

There was an “e-Tax” filing option before the 2015-16 tax year, but this was quite complicated and barely better than filling out a form online.

Must-read

Sydney council bans bikini-clad and shirtless passengers from buses

Signs at bus stops now instruct passengers to “dress appropriately” and require “clothing must be worn over swimwear.”

‘Direct targeting of Hindu Canadians’: Brampton Mayor criticised for using ‘unacceptable’ image in op-ed on extortion gangs

“This is not journalism or an opinion piece — this is irresponsible framing and direct targeting of Hindu Canadians.”

New Edith Cowan University city campus positions Perth as global education destination

"This is a campus that will enrich the student experience and the very city itself. It's a place of possibility and discovery."
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