The National Tertiary Education Union released the statement below today.
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The Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, has today introduced legislation that if passed would see the most radical changes to the way Australian higher education is regulated and funded in over a generation.
Mr Pyne claims that his Bill will give Australian universities the chance to be the best in the world. However his so called reforms are all about cutting government’s funding commitment to public universities and subsidizing private providers and leaving students with massive debts.
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Jews Against the Occupation released this statement on August 27.
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"The anti-Semitic leaflet is disgusting" said Vivienne Porzsolt of Jews Against the Occupation.
"It replicates the ancient shibboleths of traditional European hatred of Jews which has no place in a modern democracy.
Adrian Newstead was one of the first people to study climate change in Australia. "I went to a place called the Barren Grounds, which were down the New South Wales south coast down near Kangaroo Valley," the 66-year-old tells Â鶹ӳ» Weekly.
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets as celebration broke over a long-term truce agreement was reached on August 26.
As news spread that the seven-week Israeli assault on Gaza may have ended with a long term cease-fire agreement, the population of the battered strip flooded to the streets to celebrate.
The deal calls for an indefinite halt to hostilities, immediately opening Gaza’s blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt and extending the fishing zone for Gaza's fisherfolk.
The Radical Independence Campaign released the largest public canvass sample in the referendum to-date on August 19 (see graphic).
The findings are in stark contrast to the official polling companies, and show that communities all over Scotland are simply not swallowing Project Fear.
Having been failed by decades of Westminster rule, and now facing the Tory cuts, privatisation and austerity, people are increasingly looking towards a Yes vote as a platform for social change.
China’s Second Continent: How a million migrants are building a new Empire in Africa Howard W French Knopf Published May 20, 2014 304 pages www.howardwfrench.com In his 2009 film Rethink Afghanistan, director Robert Greenwald suggested that the US should not try to control the world through military means, but by building schools and hospitals in the countries it wishes to invade. Journalist Howard French's book China's Second Continent shows how such a model can work in practice.
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