Doctors and infectious diseases experts have slammed special Covid rules for celebrities like Matt Damon.
The Good Will Hunting star has been allowed to quarantine for 14 days at a large house at Byron Bay instead of having to endure two weeks in a cramped hotel as he prepares to work on a movie with Chris Hemsworth.
Damon, 50, his wife Luciana Barroso, 45, and their daughters, Isabella, 14, Gia, 12, and Stella, 10, are among an elite group who have qualified for an exemption.
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Doctors and infectious diseases experts have slammed special Covid rules for celebrities like Matt Damon. The Good Will Hunting star is wife Luciana Barroso, 45, and their daughters, Isabella, 14, Gia, 12, and Stella, 10, are among an elite group who have qualified for an exemption
Brexit Could Cost the U.K. Top Talent. An Education Leader On What Universities Should Do Now
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Professor Sir Ed Byrne, an educator and a neurologist, is one of the few people who can say, it s not brain surgery and really know what that means. He was knighted for his services to academia in 2020, after already being given the Companion of the Order of Australia, the country s highest honor, in 2014. He has spent the last six and a half years as president and principal of King s College London, where the Vision 2029 set out what a modern university could and should look like.
Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project empowering women and girls
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Over the past years, there has been a great shift in the roles of Tuvaluan women at home, in the community, and at the national and international levels. Now, women are engaged as lawyers, magistrates, patrol boat pilots, and carpenters. They hold more than 40 percent of top government positions. They also successfully run their own businesses or alongside their husbands and families.
Spaces have opened up in workplaces that allow women to progress, while opportunities have emerged for them to be involved in economic empowerment activities in Funafuti, a hub for domestic migration. Meanwhile, on the islands, Falekaupule (traditional assemblies of elders) and Kaupule (island councils) are increasingly progressive – women clan heads now join Falekaupule meetings.
325 Australian-Based Scientists, Researchers Identified as Recruits for Beijing
Australian Research Funds Could Be Supporting CCP Military Tech Development
Over 325 academics and scientists in Australian universities and research institutes have been identified as alleged recruits of Beijing’s controversial overseas talent-recruitment programs.
The allegations raise questions over potential conflicts of interest, grant fraud, and Australian research funds inadvertently advancing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military technology.
Alex Joske of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), wrote to the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security claiming that despite 325 individuals being identified, as many as 600 could be connected to Beijing-backed partnerships.
Major universities with recruits include Monash (35); University of Queensland (31); University of New South Wales (27); University of Sydney (19); and Australian National University (19).