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Chalmers signals ‘belt tightening’ to come in May budget – as it happened

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Students, staff live in fear as racism rampant at unis

Universities are being criticised for failing to tackle rampant racism, with a landmark report revealing how pervasive discrimination is on campus.

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Labor accused of playing ‘catch up’ on Iran – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

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Uni boss welcomes new laws on gender-based violence

The head of one of Australia's largest university institutions has used a keynote speech to back gender-based violence reform and call for cheaper fees.

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Bendigo Writers Festival has questions to answer over ‘untenable’ code of conduct for authors

Around 20 writers, including prominent Palestine advocate Randa Abdel-Fattah and Stella Prize winners Evelyn Araluen, Clare Wright and Jess Hill, have reportedly withdrawn from Bendigo Writers Festival, which opens today.

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Before the Australian election, both parties wanted to cut international student numbers. So why are they going up?

Foreign student places are to increase by 25,000 next year. Is this the end of the contentious debate over higher education?

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In Australia, the rules around academics sleeping with their students can be complicated. But is it ethical?

In Sweet Nothings, author Madison Griffiths investigates the uncomfortable complexities of “problematic sex” between academics and students on Australian university campuses.

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Australian envoy’s antisemitism plan criticised as ‘Trumpian’ over concerns changes could be used to silence dissent

Recommendations to remove funding from institutions or charities that fail to act on antisemitism are ‘deeply dangerous’, critics say

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Australian universities hesitate on antisemitism definition amid academic freedom concerns

Peak Jewish groups accuse ANU of making campus ‘unsafe’ after board declines to adopt definition endorsed by Universities Australia

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Australia and North America have long fought fires together – but new research reveals that has to change

Climate change is lengthening fire seasons across much of the world. This means the potential for wildfires at any time of the year, in both hemispheres, is increasing.

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Foreign student cap to ease housing crisis, Dutton says

A coalition push to free up homes by capping foreign student numbers is just an attempt to scapegoat international students in the housing debate, critics say.

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Election Diary: Dutton flags intervention in what he sees as ‘woke’ education, but how much could he actually do?

Peter Dutton came perilously close to a DOGE moment on Monday night, when he was asked about getting the “woke” agendas out of the education system. Noting the Commonwealth government “doesn’t own or run a school”, Dutton told a Sky audience in Brisbane that people wondered why there was “a…

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Muslim groups reject push for new Islamophobia definition at Australian universities

Groups call for a unified anti-racism standard and say separate definition would ‘shield’ universities from criticism of the antisemitism definition

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A new definition of antisemitism from Universities Australia is attracting criticism – two historians explain why

Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 2023, and Israel’s war in Gaza, there has been a sharp increase in antisemitic incidents, some of these occurring at Australian universities. The war’s ongoing reverberations have led to renewed controversy over the question of when criticism of Israel and support for…

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Australian universities’ new antisemitism definition has some academics worried. Here’s why

Warnings decision could have ‘chilling’ effect and limit scope of education on Middle East

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Uni size a factor for vice-chancellors' pay: peak body

The head of Australia's university peak body has defended the salaries of vice-chancellors being larger than than the leaders of Harvard or Oxford.

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PhD numbers slip as students made to live 'in poverty'

Australia's future economic growth and research prospects are at risk with meagre incomes deterring prospective candidates from undertaking a PhD.

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Call to prioritise lowering student loan debt in 2025

The peak body for universities wants the next government to prioritise lower student loan debts to reduce barriers to study and help meet a key skills target.

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Student safety bolstered as complaint watchdog sealed

Those who feel short-changed by their uni's response to their sexual assault or racism complaints will be able to escalate it to a student watchdog.

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Mixed response to Labor pledge of student debt relief

The opposition and student union have criticised Labor's pledge to cut student debts by 20 per cent, but universities backed efforts to make the system fairer.

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Foreign student cap on courses a 'reserve power'

Education Minister Jason Clare says limits for foreign students taking up individual degrees will only be used as a back up.

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Morning Mail: asylum seekers face PNG eviction, Harris-Trump debate countdown, Socceroos draw fresh blank

Calls for Australia to intervene to help former Manus detainees; Kamala Harris and Donald Trump prepare to face off in Philadelphia

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Foreign student cap will lower living standards: unis

A higher education heavyweight says the major parties are undermining Australia's future prosperity for short term political gains by capping foreign students.

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Universities say they are being treated like ‘political footballs’ in scathing critique of Labor’s student cap

Decision to cap international enrolments the most ‘extraordinary intervention’ since 2021 Coalition vetoing of research grants, Universities Australia chair to say

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Our cities are losing the small, colourful songbirds that give us the most joy

The birds that fill our mornings with songs and our parks and gardens with colour are disappearing from our cities, our new study has found.

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