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Get healthy this Spring at The Practice Wellbeing Centre: Making Holistic Healthcare Accessible

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Spring into better health with the Practice Wellbeing Centre, a student-led clinic offering high-quality, affordable holistic care. Run by Torrens University students under expert supervision, the Centre provides services like clinical nutrition, western herbal medicine and naturopathy at just $10–$20 per appointment.  Natalie Cook, Director of Innovation, Industry & Employability, Health & Education said the … Continued

Get healthy this Spring at The Practice Wellbeing Centre: Making Holistic Healthcare Accessible

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Spring into better health with the Practice Wellbeing Centre, a student-led clinic offering high-quality, affordable holistic care. Run by Torrens University students under expert supervision, the Centre provides services like clinical nutrition, western herbal medicine and naturopathy at just $10–$20 per appointment.  Natalie Cook, Director of Innovation, Industry & Employability, Health & Education said the … Continued

Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme 2025 round, the first under Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community control, now open.

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Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA), together with partners the National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners (NAATSIHWP) and Rural Doctors Network (RDN), are proud to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme (PHMSS). The Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship is named in honour of … Continued

Victoria University to stand down staff taking industrial action

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National Tertiary Education Union members (NTEU) who are taking industrial action at Victoria University (VU) are being stood down.  In response to NTEU giving notice of work bans scheduled to start today, VU management told staff the university would refuse to accept any work from union members who participate in the protected industrial action. NTEU … Continued

‘Battle for Australia’ Commemoration – Shrine of Remembrance

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Four Victorian school students have been selected to take on the roles of four Australian Service personnel, who served with the Royal Australian Navy during ‘War in the Pacific’. The students will present from prepared historically accurate scripts, each of approximately 1 minute duration. Scripts contained within the attachments. The annual ‘Battle for Australia’ Commemoration … Continued

Speaker takes Parliament to Victorian schools

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This week, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honourable Milton Dick MP will be in Victoria, as part of the Parliament in Schools program. Students will learn about federation, democracy and the Australian Parliament, as well as hear first-hand from the Speaker and their local member on what a typical day looks like in their electorate and when … Continued

Politicians Are Failing Employees In The International Education Sector

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  Australia’s independent Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) that deliver high-quality training to international students face an existential threat due to the Australian Government’s failure to provide clear and consistent guidance concerning the international education sector’s future.  The Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) is warning that business closures and job losses are the direct result. … Continued

Green light for medical program to start in 2025

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Charles Darwin University (CDU) will soon begin educating the next generation of Territory doctors with the CDU Menzies Medical Program to commence in 2025. The CDU School of Medicine will accept 20 students into the program next year.  In May, the University was allocated $24.5 million by the Federal Government to establish and operate the program from 2026 but … Continued

International student cap still too high

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A new international student cap is a welcome reduction but 270,000 per annum is still too high, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), particularly in light of the government’s expressed intention of keeping net overseas migration (NOM) to 260,000 p.a.   SPA national president Peter Strachan says excessive numbers of overseas students have contributed to unacceptably high levels of NOM which now makes up four-fifths of Australia’s population growth. “Record levels of population growth (2.5% p.a.) have had a detrimental effect on Australia, not just from a housing perspective, but environmentally as well,” says Mr Strachan. “The Australian government has allowed net migration of one million in 2022-24 and will go very  close to 1.5 million, for the whole 2022-25 electoral cycle. “Labor has perverted the purpose of education, not just by making universities and colleges dependent on the fees paid by international students, but … Continued

HistoSonics(TM) Partners with Li Ka Shing Foundation to Launch First Histotripsy Programs in Hong Kong

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Breakthrough Histotripsy Liver Tumor Programs to Begin at the University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong MINNEAPOLIS–BUSINESS WIRE– HistoSonics, (www.histosonics.com), the developer and manufacturer of the Edison™ Histotripsy System, announced today the company’s initial partnership in Asia with Hong Kong University receiving their first histotripsy system after a generous donation from the … Continued