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Avian Influenza has taken 35 lives and infected 130 people in China so far and the fear of person-to-person transmission is rising.  There is no vaccine to curb the infectious disease and experts are on the lookout to guard against the avian flu, …

This year for the first time the New South Wales Government granted overseas students travel concessions for first semester but the verdict is that the measures are “not enough”. Although international students can buy quarterly or annual tickets at a discounted price, …

Schools and local sports unions around New South Wales have rejected the recent public appeal for rugby weight categorisation at school level rugby. Weight categorisation resurfaced in the media this month when a 15-year-old boy, Jake Kedzlie, passed away after a rugby …

More than 5000 people worldwide have signed a student-led petition urging Sri Lanka’s president to act against racist groups allegedly harassing minority communities in Sri Lanka. The petition, started by student Fathima Shifani on March 26, was delivered to the Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat …

November 2010. A hot summer day in Newcastle, Australia. A luxury hotel and media frenzy on the periphery. The swimming pool. A tattooed guy rests on the bench; tired of people howling his name, he gets up and walks back to his …

Protesting staff and students, wrapped in mcintoshes and clasping umbrellas, manned the entrances to Sydney University today. They were a smaller cohort than last time and outnumbered by people crossing the picket line but clashes with police made the evening news. Grant …

Marrickville Greens councillor Max Phillips has vowed to continue his campaign against secret development deals despite being censured at a Marrickville Council meeting last month. Cr Phillips was censured for refusing to apologise for releasing a confidential business paper to The Sydney …

  Gun control reform is again in the spotlight after 19 people, including two children, were shot in New Orleans on Sunday when gunmen opened fire at a Mother’s Day parade. Police suspect that two, maybe three, shooters were involved. The gun …

China’s influence on Australian universities will be the subject of a panel discussion at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts on May 29. Hosted by the Australia Tibet Council (ATC), speakers will include ATC director Dr Simon Bradshaw, director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Dr …

In Sydney today Indigenous prisoners of war were honoured in the annual indigenous Anzac March from Redfern Park to the Block. More than 400 people turned up to witness what has now become a perennial ceremony. The day began with the traditional …