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Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
The Victorian health department said on Sunday the focus was on the priority groups set out in the federal government’s schedule, and since the story was published the state appears to have enforced the criteria more strictly. On Monday and Tuesday many people reported being turned away. Yves Rees said they tried to get vaccinated at the exhibition building in Carlton on Monday night, but were turned away by a nurse. “She said that’s not correct [and] they’d been inundated with people in [phase] 2B seeking vaccinations and they’d been turning them away,” Rees said. “She was ver...
Share on Twitter The bleak picture for universities could worsen after the 2021 Budget suggested international borders won't reopen until mid-2022. Before the pandemic, international education was Australia’s third-largest export industry, worth about A$40 billion a year to the wider economy. “Governments across all jurisdictions need to come together with universities to develop a robust plan for the safe return of international students,” Universities Australia’s Chief Executive Catriona Jackson said in a press release. “The plan would mean the careful quarantine of st...
Community When we think of Australians who made history in 1915, the rugged Anzac is the figure who first springs to mind. A century after the Gallipoli campaign, that year has become near-synonymous with the mythologized soldiers who fought and died in the Dardanelles. But months before Australia’s so-called “baptism by fire” began at Anzac Cove, a more joyful baptism drew crowds to Sydney’s northern beaches. There, in January 1915, local 15-year-old Isabel Letham was inducted into the mysteries of surfing, becoming one of the first Australians to ride the waves. This was t...