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APT40 is based on the Chinese island province of Hainan in the south of the country.

Who are the Chinese hackers named by Australia?

They are based in China’s south and have allegedly operated via a front company called the Hainan Xiandun Technology Development Co.

  • Nick Bonyhady

June

Dr Alison Barnes, National President, National Tertiary Education Union.

Unis should face inquiry into $380m in underpayments: academics’ union

Universities are the worst underpayers of staff across the economy and now the academics’ union wants a federal inquiry.

  • Julie Hare
Andrew Dzurak, CEO & Founder of Diraq

Cashed-up Diraq says it can win the quantum computing race

It hasn’t got as much money as government-backed PsiQuantum, but the UNSW start-up says it makes up for that in qubit size, as it banks a big funding round.

  • John Davidson

Short and sharp: courses that can lead to better jobs

Bite-sized qualifications deliver better jobs and pay for employees and competitiveness for employers.

  • Agnes King

How Australia can become a world leader in green hydrogen

A short course is being developed to give electrical engineers the specialist knowledge they need to work in the emerging green hydrogen sector.

  • Christopher Niesche
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Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil detailed a further tightening this week to limit visitors to Australia applying for student visas while here.

Why the government is desperate to cut immigration

There are many reasons for Australia’s inadequate housing supply, but a population jumping by 2.5 per cent a year obviously compounds the immediate problem.

  • Jennifer Hewett
The University of Sydney is an outlier in NSW – it not only made a surplus last year but had the highest revenues across all areas.

NSW unis in a sea of red, but worse to come

NSW universities struggled for a second year in a row, but their annus horribilis is still on the horizon.

  • Julie Hare
Brisbane is now the second most expensive capital city in the country.

Migration behind Queensland house price surge: experts

Brisbane has overtaken Melbourne as the second-most expensive city to buy a house and Queensland is now the ‘epicentre’ of the housing crisis, an academic says

  • James Hall

May

One of the big benefits of teaching Chinese international students is the insights they provide into their country.

On the front line of Australia’s foreign student surge

International students are in the sights of both a government and opposition looking to win votes. Who are these political pawns, and what is it like to teach them?

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  • Mark Mulligan
Australian Energy Regulator chair Clare Savage and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb are two of the country’s most powerful regulators.

They battled blokey workplaces. Now these 33 women enforce the rules

Energy regulator Clare Savage and competition chief Gina Cass-Gottlieb are among 33 women leading Australia’s regulatory bodies, once the domain of male enforcers.

  • Tom Burton
Computer programs seem to have created an image of Jesus as a shrimp, which spread across social media.

The truth behind the dead internet theory

Up to half of all internet traffic could be driven by bots, where computer programs generate posts that are liked or reposted by other programs.

  • Jake Renzella and Vlada Rozova

April

PsiQuantum Silicon Photonic Wafer.

Picking a winner in quantum is bold to say the least

If the short history of quantum computing tells us anything, it’s that nobody knows where the finishing line is, or if it’s even worth getting to.

  • John Davidson
Wealth and level of higher education are linked to longer lifespans.

Why you’ll live longer than you think (and what it means for your wealth)

Very few people die at their age of life expectancy, giving rise to financial planning’s biggest conundrum: longevity risk.

  • Penny Pryor
A solar farm in Lilyvale, Queensland. powering the sunshine state.

Let’s not waste the green energy opportunity

The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.

  • Chris Bowen

Why Schizophrenia no longer has to be a life sentence

Until the 1950s, there was no effective therapy and painful experimental treatments, such as brain surgery and sulphur injections, failed. That’s all changed.

  • Jill Margo
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NIDA graduate Sarah Snook at the Olivier Awards

Sarah, Cate, Kip, Baz and Mel are all alumni, but NIDA is broke

Australia’s premier dramatic arts institution produces the biggest names in theatre and entertainment, but it is struggling to get by.

  • Julie Hare
Anthony Albanese says Labor wants to get truth-telling “right”.

Truth-telling risks inflaming community conflict: report

Amid heightened scrutiny on community cohesion, a new report says 60 per cent of Indigenous Australians have major concerns about a Makaratta process.

  • Tom McIlroy
Melbourne Law School has been promoted in a new ranking which is inconsistent with what students say.

Melbourne Law School improves ranking despite students’ year from hell

A new league table of universities by subject area has bumped Melbourne Law School up a place to 10th, calling into question the validity of many rankings.

  • Julie Hare
The Australian Electoral Commission released data on the major donations on Tuesday.

Ramsay Foundation splashed $7m on failed Voice campaign

Rich Listers, major charitable foundations and big corporates spent millions on last year’s Indigenous referendum.

  • Tom McIlroy

March

Live animals for sale in the Huanan market are the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic says Professor Eddie Holmes. He won the Prime Minister’s Science Award in 2021 for his coronavirus research.

COVID-19 lab leak study not credible: virology expert

Leading virologist Eddie Holmes says a UNSW Kirby Institute finding that the pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak is not credible.

  • Tom Burton

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