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What to Know If You’re Moving to Brisbane

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What is the essential thing that you will require if you’re moving to Brisbane? It is the information about the place. From education facilities, job opportunities, and value of property to transport system, climate and overall rules and regulation, you need detailed information about all these things. And I am here to share an informative article with all of you. This article has all the details about Brisbane that you can ask for. This piece of information is highly recommended if you are moving to this part of the country. If you want to know all the details, read the article thoroughly. Click here! https://www.betterremovalistsbrisbane.com.au/what-to-know-if-youre-moving-to-brisbane/

Gold Coast woman describes cave rescue ordeal

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An Australian tourist said she is lucky to be alive after seriously injuring herself in a Mexican cave, but is uncertain when she will return home as she recovers from emergency surgery. Gold Coast woman Alicia Stamford, 33, was exploring a remote cave in the Sierra Alvarez region of central Mexico with friends last month when she fell, fracturing a leg and arm. She is now recovering from surgery in Mexico, but is unable to walk. In a tragic further twist, she learned of her mother's death last month while in hospital. Alicia told nine.com.au how the accident – two hours' drive from the city of San Luis Potosi and in an area with no mobile phone coverage – has left her unable to walk and with seemingly little chance of rescue. https://www.9news.com.au/national/gold-coast-woman-describes-cave-rescue-after-accident-in-remote-mexico-australia-news/f230580b-84e8-4380-a643-fb4bacc61d60

Lesson for Australia. Make it hard for people to get benefits, and they’ll stop, but they mightn’t get jobs

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Australia, like the United States, makes it hard for people who get benefits to stay on them. It’s not simply a matter of withdrawing benefits as people get jobs and work more hours – something Australia’s does more severely than most of the rest of the world – it’s also a matter of imposing onerous conditions on people who want to keep them. Centrelink generally requires evidence of looking for 20 jobs per month in order to keep receiving Newstart, a demanding requirement the Abbott government tried to double to 40 jobs per month in 2014. In our new book, Food Stamps and the Working Poor, Professors Peter Mueser, Erdal Tekin, and I examine the impact of similar requirements in the United States, taking advantage of decisions by some US counties to abandon them. Read more:  http://theconversation.com/lesson-for-australia-make-it-hard-for-people-to-get-benefits-and-theyll-stop-but-they-mightnt-get-jobs-124170

Are Australian universities putting our national security at risk by working with China?

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Australia's top universities could be aiding the Chinese Communist Party's mission to develop mass surveillance and military technologies, amid rising concerns from Australian intelligence agencies that they are putting national security at risk. A joint Four Corners-Background Briefing investigation has uncovered extensive collaborations between Australian universities and Chinese entities involved in Beijing's increasingly global surveillance apparatus. At least two of those companies and organisations have been blacklisted in the past week by the US Government, which concluded they were implicated in human rights abuses against China's Muslim minorities. A major player that has secured a foothold in Australia is Global Tone Communication (GTCOM), a global data-mining company that is majority owned by the Chinese Government. Four Corners and Background Briefing can reveal GTCOM has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of New South Wales (U...

Australia's banks escape the heat as economic growth slows, Deloitte says

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Australia’s banks made a “Houdini-like” escape from revelations about their questionable lending practices as policymakers “opted to sweep some things under the carpet” for short-term economic gain, a new report by Deloitte Access Economics says. The September Business Outlook report, released on Monday, said the housing bubble and the aftermath of the banking royal commission had been expected to put credit growth “in the naughty corner” for an extended period. “But the short term costs to economic growth of reforming banking spooked policymakers, who’ve opted to sweep some things under the carpet and to throw stimulus at housing prices,” the report said. Read more:  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/14/australias-banks-escape-the-heat-as-economic-growth-slows-deloitte-says