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‘Australia doesn’t care about me’: women international students suffering alarming rates...
Laura Tarzia, The University of Melbourne; Helen Forbes-Mewett, Monash University; Ly Tran, Deakin University, and Mandy McKenzie, The University of Melbourne
Every year, more than 700,000 international students leave their homes to study in Australia.
Around half are women.
For most of these students, the experience is...
4
min.
No, 10-year-olds aren’t being fined for going maskless in Victoria
AAP FactCheck
WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Children as young as 10 have been fined for not wearing face masks in Victoria.
OUR VERDICT
False. Official data shows Victoria Police...
2
minutes
Will COVID vaccinations be mandatory for places of worship? It could...
By Renae Barker, The University of Western Australia
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, places of worship in Australia have faced significant restrictions. These have included limits...
6
minutes
Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical?
By Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford
The main way to control the pandemic, as we have all painfully found out, has been to restrict the...
8
minutes
Australia to build nuclear submarines in a new partnership with the...
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Australia will build a fleet of nuclear submarines as part of a new security partnership with the United States...
4
minutes
Australia once rejected ‘feeble-minded’ immigrants. While the language has changed, discrimination...
By Jan Gothard, Murdoch University
“Idiots”, “imbeciles”, the “feeble-minded”, anyone with a “loathsome disease”: all were refused entry into Australia under early migration acts. Today,...
5
minutes
Yes, lockdowns are costly. But the alternatives are worse
By Patrick Abraham, The University of Melbourne; Laxman Bablani, The University of Melbourne; Natalie Carvalho, The University of Melbourne, and Tony Blakely, The University...
5
minutes