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Shane Warne’s legacy lives on: Heart health screenings reveal nearly 70 per cent of Australians checked are at risk
Scimex Newsfeed
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August 15, 2025
From: Monash University The results are in from Australia’s most important Test of the summer - and it wasn’t just on the pitch. A national heart health screening initiative launched in memory of cricket legend Shane Warne has found nearly 7 in 10...
Vietnam fosters cooperation with Australia’s Tasmania state
VietnamPlus
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August 15, 2025
Sydney (VNA) — Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung Tam has accompanied a delegation from central Hue city led by Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Van Phuong on a working visit to Tasmania, aiming to foster all-round...
Australian amateur teams named ahead of major competitions
Australian Golf Digest
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August 15, 2025
The international amateur golf swing continues in the coming months, and two teams set to represent Australia later this year have been announced. RELATED: Ella Scaysbrook’s fairytale run ends in Oregon First is the team of seven heading to the...
University of Melbourne retains top position in Australia – Academic Ranking of World Universities
The National Tribune
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August 15, 2025
University of Melbourne ranked 38 in the world in the 2025 ARWU results.The University of Melbourne has retained its position as the leading Australian university according to the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The...
Australia’s Top Digital Agencies Honored by the Netty Awards
Macau Business
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August 14, 2025
The Netty Awards spotlight four of Australia’s leading digital agencies, recognizing their innovation, creativity, and proven results. These industry leaders are setting new standards in branding, web development, performance marketing, and...
Australian university hits back at the ABC over ‘false reporting’
Sky News Australia
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August 15, 2025
The University of Technology Sydney has publicly criticised ABC News, accusing the broadcaster of publishing false and “misleading” claims about its decision to suspend enrolments for more than 100 courses in 2026. The course suspension, announced...
University workers threatened with redundancy told to 'wash their delicates' in 50 BIZARRE tips to manage stress
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
University staff anxious about redundancies have been advised to 'bake desserts' and 'clean their bathroom', as an external firm works to cut millions from the budget. Consultants have been ordered to save $100million at the University of...
Maker or faker? Australia’s handicraft markets face rise in mass-produced goods
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
Peggy Byrne was strolling through market stalls held by artisans and makers in Adelaide. A selection of crocheted flowers and animals caught her eye. Byrne, the owner of Bowerbird, a design market in the city, asked the stallholder which pattern...
Australia: Police officers jailed over assault of mentally ill woman in Western Sydney
World Socialist Web Site
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August 15, 2025
On August 8, two former New South Wales (NSW) police officers were jailed for the violent assault of a 48-year-old mentally ill woman in Western Sydney. In what Judge Graham Turnbull described as an attack “clearly calculated… to inflict the...
Raiders' intriguing 6-foot-6, 373-pound Australian OL hopeful
ESPN India
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HENDERSON, Nev. -- When Laki Tasi took a trip to Grubbies Burgers and Hawaiian BBQ in Queensland, Australia, last September, he was given more than a meal to satisfy his hunger. Tasi was enjoying a double patty burger when he had a conversation...
Australia’s business events sector fully rebounds with ABEA reports on key insights
Travel Weekly
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August 15, 2025
Australia’s business events sector has fully rebounded to pre-pandemic levels across many measures, with 2024 showing strong inbound performance, according to two major research papers released by the Australian Business Events Association (ABEA)....
Australia’s republican future faces a Trump-sized foreign threat
Independent Australia
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As Donald Trump reshapes America into a more coercive and unilateral power, Australia’s long-running push for a republic finds itself at a complex geopolitical crossroads, writes Callum Seán Murray. AMERICA HAS RULED the Western world since the...
Australian Defence Force Academy Open Day
The National Tribune
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August 15, 2025
Department of Defence The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) will host prospective students and members of the public at its annual Open Day in Canberra tomorrow. Set to be the largest ADFA Open Day ever, the event will host 80 different...
Saddleworth-based students help Rishworth School to huge success
Saddleworth Independent
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August 15, 2025
SADDLEWORTH-BASED students contributed to a huge increase in grades achieved at Rishworth School. Many from the area cross the border into West Yorkshire for their education and this year was a huge success. For they achieved an impressive overall...
Australia says it values early learning, but our actions tell another story
Women's Agenda
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August 15, 2025
The last month in the early learning space has been fraught with tension. Following the horrific incidents taking place in some Victorian children’s services, it’s caused all of us – families, teachers, educators, even just community members – to...
World's largest Quaker school boycotts weapons-sponsored STEM programs
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 15, 2025
A leading Tasmanian school will no longer send students to two national STEM programs, due to the events being sponsored by major weapons manufacturers. The Friends' School in Hobart is the world's largest Quaker school with about 1,300 students —...
Judy Bailey and a lost century of Australian culture
Crikey
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August 15, 2025
The El Rocco, a cellar on William Street in Sydney’s Kings Cross, started hiring jazz musicians because the TV they’d installed to get the punters in shut off at 10pm, and the young clientele drawn there by this novelty didn’t want to go home that...
Australia’s cheapest home snapped up sight unseen
realestate.com.au
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August 14, 2025
A Sydney buyer has snapped up an abandoned, century-old country home with beehives in its walls for one-tenth of the price of a typical Australian home, without ever stepping foot inside. The 'renovator's delight' was one of three houses to sell...
Rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ detected in drinking water supplies in Australia
The Independent
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August 15, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Australian punter Patrick Rea brings new spin to JMU football
The Breeze - Virginia
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Following the end of the 2024-25 football season, former JMU and All-Sun Belt punter Ryan Hanson had no eligibility left. The Dukes had to find a new punter for the first time in two seasons, and they landed an Australian punter that never kicked...