Surgeons call for medicines reform
The nation’s surgical college is calling for a nationally coordinated strategy on saline products.
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‘Sex is changeable’, judge rules
Justice Bromwich also found that ‘sex is changeable’ and non-binary as experts discuss the legal implications of the finding of discrimination against transgender woman Roxanne Tickle.
‘Anti-Semitism normalised’: Disgust at store window display
Iconic Australia institutions have demanded their names be removed from an online clientele list of a Wagga Wagga business that used its shopfront to accuse Israelis of ‘gang rape … maim and torture’.
Chinese students pushed to regions ‘will choose US, UK’
The University of Sydney says student caps will not siphon Chinese students into regional unis, as the government wants, but push them to sandstone unis overseas.
Activists rank local candidates on Gaza
‘We Vote for Palestine’ emailed all NSW candidates urging them to ‘take the … pledge’ and vote on whether they would support a council motions for a ceasefire, divestment of financial ties, and ‘sister city relationships’ with Gaza.
UniSQ names McVeigh as chancellor
John McVeigh said he hoped to bring his professional and political experience in regional matters to what is a ‘very significant regional university’.
‘Pay prac sessions for physio therapy’
The nation’s allied health deans say its ‘unfair’ that physiotherapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy and psychology students still need to pay for their university prac placements while teaching and nursing students are free.
Unis warned: chatbots taking over and return to ‘pen and paper’ futile
A new survey of 337 Australian university students found that more than a third had used a chatbot for help with an assessment, and did not think this was a breach of academic integrity.
Intravenous scandal escalates: the excuses are fluid
Amid growing questions over the transparency of the response to the crisis, it has emerged that Australia is the only country experiencing a major supply shortage of IV fluid and a Sydney factory is exporting stock to NZ.
Rural hubs open doors to future
More than half of the students studying at government-funded higher education hubs in regional and rural NSW are the first in their families to go to university, new analysis reveals.
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