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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Australia

Baird government replaces local employees with 457 visa workers

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎45 minutes ago‎
IT professionals are being hired on 457 visas in preference to Australian workers at the same time the NSW government outsources public services.

How Derryn Hinch stole Turnbull thunder on backpacker tax

The Australian - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Derryn Hinch was enjoying Malcolm Turnbull's hospitality at The Lodge last Sunday when a casual conversation with Scott Morrison helped sow the seeds of a Senate shambles.

Man found with stab wound in neck dies in remote Northern Territory town of Aileron

ABC Online - ‎2 hours ago‎
A man has died after being found with a stab wound to his neck 30 kilometres from the remote Aileron Roadhouse in the Northern Territory.

Hanson rally cancelled after security concerns

NEWS.com.au - ‎8 hours ago‎
A ONE Nation rally to be held in Melbourne's southeast this weekend has been cancelled due to “security concerns”. Senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts released a statement this afternoon stating they would cancel their visit to Caulfield this ...

Bikie figure target of covert police operation as Pasquale Barbaro gangland hit carried out

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎1 hour ago‎
Living in an upmarket Sydney apartment and studying a masters degree, on the surface Abuzar Sultani was an intelligent young professional.

Pedestrian dies after being hit by car on Springvale Road, Nunawading

The Age - ‎2 hours ago‎
A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car in Melbourne's east on Wednesday afternoon. The 66-year-old Nunawading man was pushing a boy in a stroller across Springfield Road, at the corner of Springvale Road about 4.50pm when he was struck by a ...

Rabbis call for heads to roll at Yeshivah

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎3 hours ago‎
Australia's most powerful coalition of rabbis has for first time called for heads to roll at Yeshivah institutions, after damning findings in the royal commission exposed that child abuse was ignored and enabled by its leaders.

Brisbane storms leave two people hospitalised and thousands without power before heatwave

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎1 hour ago‎
Two people were injured and almost 10,000 homes were without power for a time after dangerous thunderstorms swept through south-east Queensland on Wednesday.

Sydney gas explosion: guard saves food court from fiery explosion, owners say

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎9 hours ago‎
The explosion that rocked a shopping centre in Haymarket in Sydney's CBD could have been much worse if not for the quick thinking of one of the security guards, shop owners say.

Victorian schools clean up on workers

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎8 hours ago‎
Their cars arrive at schools across town as early as 3am, well before teachers, parents or students. They unchain steel gates and switch off alarms.

Turnbull's hand-picked disruptor disrupts disruption by departing

The Register - ‎10 hours ago‎
Paul Shetler, the head of Australia's Digital Transformation Office/Agency has resigned. A brief canned statement from the Agency offers no information on the reasons for his departure.

Barnaby Joyce vows LNP maverick George Christensen will become a cabinet minister

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎5 hours ago‎
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says he is grooming maverick north Queensland backbencher George Christensen for a future as a cabinet minister.

Defence chief Dennis Richardson says he couldn't make a reasonable APS pay offer under Tony Abbott

The Canberra Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
Senior Defence Department officials are asking their public servants to "gamble" on a new pay and conditions offer as the giant department goes to the ballots on Thursday morning.

WA men lose appeal over fatal gay bashing

Sky News Australia - ‎4 hours ago‎
Two West Australian men jailed over the fatal bashing of a gay man in a public toilet block have lost their appeal bids. Warren Gerard Batchelor, 48, was attacked while having sex with another man in a toilet cubicle at Middle Swan Reserve in Caversham ...

Gay panic defence: Bill introduced to Queensland Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎5 hours ago‎
The homosexual advance defence, to use its legal term, has been used by people accused of murder to claim they were provoked due to an unwanted sexual advance.

Leaked cabinet papers warn secret visa overhaul would create 'two-tier society', increase violent extremism

The Sydney Morning Herald - ‎13 hours ago‎
A secret Turnbull government plan to radically reshape Australia's visas system could undermine social cohesion, increase the risk of violent extremism and create a "two-tier society", according to leaked documents marked "Protected: Sensitive - Cabinet".

Coalition MPs push for new scrutiny on trade deals

The Australian Financial Review - ‎6 hours ago‎
A government-dominated parliamentary committee has recommended new independent scrutiny of future trade deals even though none was done for the now abandoned Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Guildford Grammar invites girls into formerly single-sex school

ABC Online - ‎5 hours ago‎
One of Western Australia's oldest private boys' schools will be fully co-educational by 2020, to better prepare students for life in the workplace.

Hidden death toll of young veterans raises alarm

Herald Sun - ‎2 hours ago‎
After a Herald Sun investigation revealed the hidden death toll of Australia's servicemen and women, federal Veterans' Affairs Minister Dan Tehan disclosed in Question Time that male veterans aged 18-24 were almost twice as likely to take their own life.

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University Friends

Butler's 'Trumpism' course description draws backlash

Indianapolis Star - ‎9 hours ago‎
Butler University said it is reviewing its course description practices after it received backlash for a fall 2017 course offering that focused on the election of President Donald Trump.

Guidelines and Policy - Social Media at Your University

Inside Higher Ed (blog) - ‎9 hours ago‎
When you do an advanced Google search for social media policy and/or social media guidelines on either .edu or .ac.uk domains, a lot of results* appear.

Ex-UM health CEO named Oakland University president

The Detroit News - ‎15 hours ago‎
Rochester Hills - Oakland University has named Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz as its seventh president, choosing a pharmaceutical company executive and former University of Michigan hospital leader who is a physician, researcher, administrator and fundraiser.

Congresswomen in Black Sorority Decry Racist Acts at American University

NBC4 Washington - ‎9 hours ago‎
The international president of the historically black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha spoke with News4 about the recent racist displays at American University. Jackie Bensen reports the unversity's security has been called into question due to poor ...

University Presses

New York Times - ‎11 hours ago‎
One of the lessons of NUMBERS AND THE MAKING OF US: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures (Harvard University, $27.95), a fascinating book by the anthropologist Caleb Everett, is that to exoticize the Pirahã (say, by likening them to Borges ...

Florida university to award degree to Trayvon Martin

CNN - ‎16 hours ago‎
The slain Florida teenager -- killed by George Zimmerman five years ago -- will be awarded a posthumous bachelor's degree in aeronautical science from Florida Memorial University. Martin's parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, will accept the ...

University of Akron bans all smoking including e-cigarettes

fox8.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
AKRON, Ohio-- Students at the University of Akron are being reminded that as of July 1, smoking of any kind will not be permitted on campus or at any off-campus university activity. The school will begin enforcing a ban that not only includes ...

Tuition hike proposed for some University of Montana students

The Missoulian - ‎7 hours ago‎
Tuition and fees for students at the University of Montana would jump 13 percent for resident freshmen and sophomores, but those costs at UM also would be equal to Montana State University, unlike the current setup. And, the total annual cost of ...

Baylor University Frat Suspended For “Mexican-Themed” Party

PEOPLE.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
The members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Baylor University faced repercussions for throwing a “Mexican-themed” party for Cinco de Mayo.

University of Iowa must pay $1.4 million to Jane Meyer

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines - ‎11 hours ago‎
Finding the University of Iowa discriminated against a former athletics administrator based on her gender and sexual orientation, a Polk County jury Thursday awarded Jane Meyer $1.43 million, according to her legal team.

University of Texas stabbing victim asked student to call his mom

New York Daily News - ‎13 hours ago‎
The victim of a stabbing spree at the University of Texas asked a student he didn't know to call his mom before he died Monday.

University of Arizona seniors behind viral red swimsuit giveaway

AZCentral.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
The company's founders, University of Arizona seniors Alan Alchalel and Brady Silverwood, now seem to be scrambling to figure out how to make the deal happen.

A Public University Acquires A Big For-Profit, And Raises Big Questions

NPR - ‎22 hours ago‎
In a move that's being called "bold" and "out of the blue," Indiana's Purdue University is acquiring the for-profit Kaplan University. In announcing the deal last week, Purdue President Mitch Daniels said it was designed to open the university up to a ...

Carlow University students mourn freshman who died in fall from balcony

Tribune-Review - ‎8 hours ago‎
A somber mood permeated Carlow University's Oakland campus Thursday, a day after the death of freshman Dalton Bacco. On the sidewalk outside the student center, bouquets of yellow, pink and blue flowers propped up alongside a few candles served as ...

Noose Found Inside University of Maryland Fraternity House

U.S. News & World Report - ‎18 hours ago‎
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Authorities at the University of Maryland are investigating a noose discovered in a fraternity house.

Potemkin Universities

National Review - ‎May 3, 2017‎
The university faces crises almost everywhere of student debt, university finances, free expression, and the very quality and value of a university education. Take free speech. Without freedom of expression, there can be no university. But if the ...

Student comes up with 'ingenious' way to cheat in university exams

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎12 hours ago‎
It may sound like something used by one of Harry Potter's wayward classmates at Hogwarts, but “invisible ink” has now been revealed by the university ombudsman as the latest university exam scam. According to the latest annual report by the Office of ...

Student Arrested After Crawling Into a Duct to Steal an Exam

New York Times - ‎12 hours ago‎
The Multidisciplinary Science Building at the University of Kentucky, where officials said two students tried to steal an exam from an instructor's office.

Salaries of 245 senior university staff are leaked

Devon Live - ‎1 hour ago‎
"The Information Commissioner was satisfied with the steps taken by the university to address the unauthorised disclosure and took no further action.

Arizona House OKs university bonding, Senate up next

ABC15 Arizona - ‎4 hours ago‎
The focus immediately returned to the Senate, where deal-cutting to gain support from conservative Republicans for the $1 billion university bonding program is yet to be tested with a vote. But it was clear the Legislature was moving closer to passing