As Australia’s biggest trading partner, resetting tense political and trade relations between Australia and China is a key priority for Australia. And, according to a report released yesterday, both countries collaborating to address both the health and economic challenges caused ...

Australia’s university sector has emphasised the need for further consultation on Australia’s proposed foreign relations bill, with a new parliamentary report reflecting some of the sector’s concerns on international agreement laws. Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation ...

The University of Sydney (USYD) will review an article that appeared in its student newspaper Honi Soit following a backlash from the Hindu community. The article, titled ‘How a Nation of Mystics, Occultists, and Yogis became “Hindus”’, has been labelled ...

In 2020, COVID-19 has revealed that some forms of work, such as health, aged care and social assistance as well as food and service provision, are essential. Higher education is among the services that have remained accessible throughout the crisis, ...

The government’s contentious job-ready graduate reforms are likely to disadvantage Indigenous students, a Wiradjuri man said last week. According to recent data, social science degrees (which are considered humanities courses and will attract the fee hikes of 113 per cent ...

Data released by an Australian National University database shows that Chinese investment in Australia has plummeted by over 47 per cent, from $4.8 billion in 2018 to $2.5 billion in 2019. Further, drawing on data released by the university’s Chinese ...

A concerning situation is quickly developing for more than 100,000 independent tertiary education students in Victoria due to the state’s COVID-19 shutdown. The fear is that many of these students will be unable to complete their studies this year and ...

A new federal parliamentary committee will investigate foreign interference at Australian universities that could have far-reaching ramifications for research collaborations with peers. Liberal backbencher Andrew Hastie, a candid critic of the Chinese Communist Party and chair of the intelligence and ...

A group of higher education staff disappointed with proposed sector reforms will meet online on August 24 – the day federal parliament returns – in an act of unprotected industrial action. Called the National University Staff Assembly and organised by ...

In his Australia Day Address in 2006, John Howard said that Australia’s "dominant cultural pattern comprises Judeo-Christian ethics, the progressive spirit of the Enlightenment and the institutions and values of British political culture". The speech was controversial. Howard set out ...