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Tensions simmer as pro-Palestine university camps grow

Almost a dozen protest camps have embedded themselves in universities across Australia to support the pro-Palestine movement amid unease over social cohesion.

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Amid reports Jewish students in Sydney ‘afraid to go to class’ minister urged to condemn university encampments

Jason Clare says the community, including politicians, must ‘lower the temperature’

The Guardian - AU

Anti-Israel Demonstrations Spread To Australian Universities

Anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses in the US are now spreading globally, with Australian universities joining in calls for divestment from Isra...

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Australian university students are camping out in support of Gaza. Here’s what you need to know

Pro-Palestinian students at four Australian campuses say they will permanently occupy university land until their demands for divestment are met

The Guardian - AU

'Quite rattled': toll of Mardi Gras policing revealed

Heavy-handed drug policing operations at Sydney World Pride and Mardi Gras continue to impact police and LGBTQI community relations, experts say.

AAP

Are US campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza going global?

From France to Australia, students are part of pro-Palestine protests as Columbia students continue encampments.

Al Jazeera

Professor fights sacking, claims bribery and corruption

A court has been asked to find if a University of Sydney professor was fired for exposing corruption or because of his own alleged serious misconduct.

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Students choose arts degrees in droves despite huge rise in fees under Morrison government

The scheme to incentivise students into other disciplines has failed to stem the ‘massive swell’ of demand for humanities

The Guardian - AU

Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why

More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.

Space

For 30 years I saw my kidnapping as character-building – until I finally faced what happened to me

As a gen X feminist who survived and ignored a violent assault in the 80s, I didn’t identify as a victim – but #MeToo gave me a crucial new perspective

The Guardian - AU

Every 2.4 million years, Mars tugs on Earth so hard it changes the ocean floor

A new geological study suggests that Mars' gravitational field pulls the Earth closer to the sun over cycles lasting millions of years, warming our climate.

LiveScience

Sydney Biennale 2024: Armageddon is met with joy and subversion in epic art feast

Spread out across six venues, including the anticipated White Bay Power Station, Ten Thousand Suns is an exhibition of global scope and resilience

The Guardian - AU

What’s paralysing thousands of rainbow lorikeets? Scientists search for the cause as volunteer carers are overwhelmed

A mystery paralysis syndrome is afflicting lorikeet populations in south-east Queensland and northern NSW at a rate scientists say they have never seen

The Guardian - AU

An ‘exciting advance’ or ‘poor public policy’? Australian universities divided over new $10bn fund

The Higher Education Future Fund aims to fund expanded study hubs in areas outside the major capital cities

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Legionnaires' disease warning for parts of Sydney uni

Legionella bacteria has been found in a cooling tower at the University of Sydney after three people were admitted to hospital with Legionnaires' disease.

The Guardian - AU

Hold the beer: how university O-Week swapped parties and pranks for picnics and friendship bracelets

Traditionally orientation week went hand in hand with boozing. These days the activities are more inclusive and welcoming

The Guardian - AU

Australian students handed ‘wellbeing shots’ made by subsidiary of British American Tobacco – as experts fear new front in health wars

Experts say tobacco companies are turning to the booming wellness industry as a way of normalising more harmful products, and that some brands obscure or hide their ownership

The Guardian - AU

January university offers are going out across Australia – here’s what you need to know

How are tertiary education offers staggered, what’s popular this year and what happens if you don’t get your first preference? Guardian Australia spells it out

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Early Christmas present for Hunter students as they unwrap uni offers

UAC released its first ATAR-based offers on Thursday morning.

Newcastle Herald

University offers: students to find out if spot secured in dream course

UAC will release offers from 7.30am on Thursday.

The Conversation

Australia's first mobile cooling hub is ready for searing heat this summer – and people who are homeless helped design it

Heatwaves are a major public health hazard. Socially disadvantaged people are especially exposed to extreme heat and other impacts of climate change. Many people experiencing homelessness – more than 120,000 on any given day in Australia – are exposed to extreme temperatures sleeping on the street, in cars or tents,…

The Guardian - AU

Mental health app that cost Australian taxpayers $33m did not result in ‘clinical outcomes’, study finds

Independent review raises questions on value for money achieved from scrapped Project Synergy app, which is part-owned by PwC and the University of Sydney

The Guardian - AU

No evidence cannabis reduces long-term illicit opioids use, study finds

Lead author says study led by University of Sydney is longest ever to have looked at relationship between the two drugs

AAP

Research finds big mental health decline, cause unclear

Research has revealed that something around the turn of millennium led to a significant decline in the mental health of Australians, but its unclear what.

The Guardian - AU

Successive Australian generations suffering worse mental health than the one before, study shows

New study finds cohort born in 90s worse off compared with older generations at similar ages

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