Doctors urged to not force-feed detainees
Bianca Hall Melbourne asylum seekers engaged in a hunger strike could have just days to live.
Donations pour in to ease plight on Manus Island
Bianca Hall MOVED by the stories of hardship in immigration detention centres, Australians are sending letters, parcels and goods to detainees to remind them they are not forgotten.
Greens claim $2b will fix Newstart poverty
Exclusive Bianca Hall IS $2 BILLION a year too much to help Australia's most impoverished people?
Security risk refugee tries to end life
Daniel Flitton and Bianca Hall A Tamil refugee branded a security threat by ASIO and held in detention in Melbourne has attempted to take his life.
Tamil man attempts suicide in detention
Daniel Flitton, Bianca Hall A TAMIL refugee branded a security threat by ASIO and held in detention in Melbourne has attempted to take his life, following a suicide attempt last week by another Tamil man in Sydney.
Minister slams unis' 'elitist' view
Bianca Hall Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans has hit back at Australia's top research universities.
Business endorses language plan
Bianca Hall The business sector has called on the states and territories to back Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to give every student the chance to study an Asian language by 2025.
Jones ordered to be trained in factual accuracy
Bianca Hall Controversial radio shock jock Alan Jones has been ordered to undergo ''factual accuracy'' training, and to use fact-checkers, in another damaging blow to his credibility.
Police chiefs eager to harness technological advances
Bianca Hall AUSTRALIA's police commissioners want to help draft laws that would allow them to access the public's telecommunications data for up to two years.
Public schools get too much: Abbott
Jewel Topsfield, Bianca Hall Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has provoked a storm of controversy over his suggestion that it is an injustice that public schools receive the majority of government funding.
Boat people number down but indefinite detainees up
Bianca Hall The number of asylum seekers coming to Australia has dropped by 9 per cent.
AFP lets Captain Emad leave Australia
Bianca Hall The accused people smuggler ''Captain Emad'' fled Australia on Tuesday, it emerged yesterday, with authorities powerless to prevent him leaving Melbourne Airport.
Sri Lankan refugees are 'security threat'
Daniel Flitton, Bianca Hall Three more Sri Lankan refugees who fled the country's bloody civil war have been rounded up across Australia in the past week, having been branded a security threat by intelligence agencies.
Refugees rounded up as threats to security
Daniel Flitton, Bianca Hall Three more Sri Lankan refugees who fled the country's bloody civil war have been rounded up across Australia in the past week after being branded as a security threat by intelligence agencies.
Higher education lagging behind burgeoning Asia
Bianca Hall AUSTRALIA'S standing as the regional educational beacon is fading, thanks to the burgeoning Asian higher education system, an international conference will hear today.
Nothing to stop Rinehart's run: Swan
Bianca Hall, Kirsty Simpson The federal government has rejected a bid for new legislation to force mining magnate Gina Rinehart to abide by the Fairfax Media charter of independence.
Broad-brush stroke for the arts in schools plan
Bianca Hall For the first time, all Australian students will study dance, drama, media arts, music and the visual arts until year 10, under a draft national curriculum issued yesterday.
Enrolment drop threatens Aust innovation
Bianca Hall New research will today argue that a shortfall in science students at Australian universities is placing future Australian innovation at serious risk.
Chief scientist warns research may suffer as uni numbers fall
Bianca Hall NEW research finds a shortfall in science students at local universities is placing future Australian innovation at serious risk.
TV content shake-up to ease sporting cover
Bianca Hall Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will have wide-ranging powers under new laws unveiled yesterday to determine how many AFL and NRL matches are broadcast weekly on free-to-air television.
