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Where Australian universities rank among world’s best, and why it’s under threat

The University of Melbourne is Australia’s leading university, rising from 14th to 13th after a leap from 33 last year. It is joined in...

Sydney’s old trains get $450m to keep them in service for extra 12 years

Premier Chris Minns said building the new trains in NSW would take time, but the government was determined to do it.Loading“We’ve had a decade...

Bridge too far: Yoga teachers say migration need is a stretch

The peak body for yoga teachers in Australia says the country has an oversupply of instructors despite a national skills body created by the...

Young man dies in horrific billboard tragedy

A man has died after crashing into a billboard and a tree in northern New South Wales.Emergency services responded to reports of a single-vehicle...

More than a quarry: Economists back Albanese’s $23 billion gamble

“This exposes Australia to a wide range of economic, social, environmental and geopolitical risks. Meanwhile, powerful corporate interests keep pressuring to extend and expand...

Treat us like mining: Universities warn of 4500 job cuts over student crackdown

He will say there were more international students enrolled in higher education in 2019 than last year, when the migration and housing debate began...

Car thefts on the rise as opportunistic thieves target unlocked cars

Thieves are targeting unlocked cars and stealing valuable items across Melbourne's suburbs, leaving victims to count the costs of their lost property.Police data has...

‘I’m shooketh’: Tourism Australia calls in corruption watchdog over expenses scandal

In short: Tourism Australia has asked the National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate three staff sacked for charging taxpayers for personal travel.The agency’s chief executive Phillipa...

Giles boasting about Direction 99 intensifies calls for resignation

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles' boast to refugee activists that Direction 99 would help Australia with its "obligations" to foreign nationals with criminal convictions has...

This parking rule is catching drivers out. Now there’s a push to alter it

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Queensland president Tessa Leggo said areas with minimal street trees and vegetation could be 10 degrees hotter than equivalent...

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