Nauru bills $1000 a month for each asylum seeker visa
Bianca Hall THE Nauru government says a deal was struck months ago to charge Australia $1000 a month in visa fees for each asylum seeker detained on the island.
Minister slams unis' 'elitist' view
Bianca Hall Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans has hit back at Australia's top research universities.
$1b cuts tipped to hit jobs, overseas students
Bianca Hall and Benjamin Preiss Melbourne University will abandon plans to hire about 200 people because of federal government funding cuts, the university's head of research says.
Research cuts anger universities
Bianca Hall Australia's universities have reacted savagely to research budget cuts.
Shock jock Jones told to get 'factual accuracy' training
Bianca Hall Controversial shock-jock Alan Jones has been ordered to undergo 'factual accuracy' training, and to use fact-checkers, in another damaging blow to his credibility.
Shock-jock Jones' .001 per cent apology
Bianca Hall Shock-jock Alan Jones has taken to the radiowaves today to defend himself against the media regulator's ruling that he breached the broadcast code and must submit to ''factual accuracy'' training.
$25m a 'modest' sum to secure UN Security Council seat: Carr
Bianca Hall Foreign Minister Bob Carr says $24 million was a modest sum to secure Australia's historic election to the UN Security Council after a five-year lobbying campaign.
Newsrooms remain 'blokey' bastions of harassment: study
Bianca Hall Female journalists are more than twice as likely to be sexually harassed in the workforce than women in other professions, a Monash University study has found.
Defence treaty to 'censor' research
Bianca Hall Up to 90 per cent of academic research could be affected by an Australian-US trade agreement that would make it an offence for academics to communicate findings on research, the University of Sydney...
Gillard cops personal abuse on online Q&A
Bianca Hall A Facebook question-and-answer session hosted by the Prime Minister descended into personal abuse today, as the row over Alan Jones' comments about Julia Gillard's family continues to rage.
A first for the PM but abusers take advantage
Bianca Hall A FACEBOOK question-and-answer session hosted by Julia Gillard descended into personal abuse of the Prime Minister as the Alan Jones controversy continued.
Billions needed for Australian medical research: review
Bianca Hall and Nicky Phillips Australia should pour up to $3 billion more a year into health and medical research, and work harder to make research findings commercially successful, a major review has found.
They were going to kill me, says kidnap victim
Stephanie Gardiner, Bianca Hall AN AUSTRALIAN woman who was abducted in Ecuador with a British tourist says their kidnappers were close to killing them when they told the women to run for their lives.
Asylum seeker boat intercepted
Bianca Hall Boat carrying 146 passengers and three crew intercepted - the fourth boat to arrive since Friday.
Australian was in the wrong place: Carr
Bianca Hall Woman kidnapped in remote area of Ecuador should not have been there, Foreign Affairs Minister says.
Attempts at apology by phone fall on deaf ears
Bianca Hall JULIA GILLARD has refused to personally hear an apology from the 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones, who said yesterday he regretted his remarks saying the Prime Minister's father had died of his ''shame''...
Media Watch rapped by media regulator
Bianca Hall Who watches the watchdog? The Australian Communications and Media Authority ruled today that Media Watch breached the ABC code of conduct by not giving a journalist the right of reply.
ASIC wants open sesame on all phone, internet data
Bianca Hall and Lucy Battersby ASIC calls for phone call and internet data to be made available for its war on white-collar crime.
Coalition unable to fully cost broadband alternative
Bianca Hall Malcolm Turnbull has launched a survey to identify Australia’s broadband black spots but he says the Coalition will not be able to detail a fully-costed alternative to the National Broadband Network...
Bernardi won't give UK speech
Bianca Hall and Jessica Wright Under-fire Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has capped a bruising week for his political career by pulling out of a speaking engagement in England.
