Natasha Bita

Natasha Bita is a multi-award winning journalist with a focus on free speech, education, social affairs, aged care, health policy, immigration, industrial relations and consumer law. She has won a Walkley Award, Australia’s most prestigious journalism award, and a Queensland Clarion Award for feature writing. Natasha has also been a finalist for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award and the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. Her reporting on education issues has won the NSW Professional Teachers’ Council Media Award and an Australian Council for Educational Leaders award. Her agenda-setting coverage of aged care abuse won an Older People Speak Out award. Natasha worked in London and Italy for The Australian newspaper and News Corp Australia. She is a member of the Canberra Press Gallery and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Contact her by email natasha.bita@news.com.au

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WISHWish

EMBARGO FOR WISH MAGAZINE 06 SEPTEMBER 2024. Third generation hotelier Valentina De Santis of Italian palaces Passalacqua and grand hotel Tremezzo. Photo: Ricky Monti

How this Italian hotel dynasty is making multi-generational living five star

Luxury hotelier Valentina De Santis of Lake Como palaces Passalacqua and Grand Hotel Tremezzo has created a similarly grand home for her extended family at Villa Mondolfo.

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Group of Eight warningHigher Education

Group of Eight Chief Executive Vicki Thomson speaking at The AustralianÕs Strategic Forum: How should we manage our relationship with China? in Sydney on Monday 18th November 2019. Picture: Nikki Short

Richest unis threaten to cut local enrolment

The Coalition is poised to give a Senate green light to the federal government’s cap on international student numbers, as Australia’s richest universities threaten to cut domestic student enrolments.

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INTERNATIONAL CAPSEducation

Graduating university students throw their mortarboard caps in the air at ceremony.

Unis face $1bn hit as foreign intake slashed

Universities Australia said the restrictions on international student recruitment will ‘apply a handbrake to Australia’s second biggest export industry’ while unions warn of job cuts.

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Quotas imposedPolitics

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announce $40,000 scholarships for NT student teachers. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Universities’ Senate plea: ‘Don’t be bullied’

Jason Clare has flagged on-the-run reforms to his contentious cuts to international student numbers, after a backlash from business and a plea from universities for the Senate not to be ‘bullied’ into waving through the changes.

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UniversitiesEducation

The University of Sydney Professor Mark Scott AO, Vice Chancellor and President at a public senate hearing for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill 2024 (Provisions) on Education Services.Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Worse than Covid: uni cuts chaos

University vice-chancellors and private training colleges blow up over ‘unworkable’’ federal government plans to cap record numbers of international students in Australia.

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NAPLANNation

23/8/24: Year 2 students at Woolooware Public School: Olivia, Elke, Teacher, Jill Grant, Max, Darcy (longHair), Louis and Jedd in the school library reading books. John Feder/The Australian

States dragging their heels on key step to literacy

The National Children’s Commissioner has drawn the line between illiteracy and youth crime.

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ExclusiveEducation

backside graduation hats during commencement success graduates of the university, Concept education congratulation. Graduation Ceremony ,Congratulated the graduates in University during commencement.

‘Degree-factory unis fail the best, carry the worst’

Australian universities are ‘degree factories’ that dilute academic standards through group assignments, woke teaching and cheating, a conservative think-tank has warned.

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educationEducation

NSW Education Minister Prue Car, Australian Education Union federal president Corenna Haythorpe and Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll are in Canberra to call on the Albanese Government to raise its school funding contribution to 25 per cent at a cost of $12 billion over the next decade. Picture: Supplied

‘Hypocrite’ states try to shake down feds on school funding

Sniping state education ministers have been branded ‘hypocrites’ for demanding more commonwealth cash while short-changing their own public schools.

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SchoolsPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos.July 31, 2024.Deputy Premier and Education and Early Learning Minister Prue Car announces the NSW Government and South Australian GovernmentÃs Social Media Summit at Condell Park High School. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

States rebel over federal funding for public schools

A grassroots election fight over school funding will kick off when teachers, principals and students descend on Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

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exclusivePolitics

Caps to target Chinese uni students

Wealthy universities that profit from enrolling too many Chinese students will be penalised as the federal government dumps a ministerial direction it admits is ‘throttling’ tertiary education.

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