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Who will help Ukraine

Ipsos has run a global study of 28 countries including Australia – into attitudes towards the war in Ukraine one year on. Like many countries Australians strongly believe (79%) that we should support sovereign countries when attacked. Sanctions against Russia are also popular with 74% in favour of restricting gas and oil imports and 79% …

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Major Medicare Overhaul

Medicare is set to change under new funding in the Labor government’s May budget. To relieve the public hospital system General Practitioners will be better equipped to handle a wider variety of cases including light trauma treatment, mental health and physiotherapy. To achieve this goal the Medicare system has to take inspiration from general health …

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Emily – story of the quiet sister who wrote Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë  who penned the dramatic gothic story of Cathy and Heathcliff  has long been an intriguing character. This quiet and reclusive Brontë was thought to be the least likely of the sisters to have written the passionate and darkly disturbing Wuthering Heights. Yet indeed she did, and one could only speculate what went on …

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Chris Hipkins to be NZ PM

The New Zealand Labour party has moved quickly to settle on Chris Hipkins as their leader to be Prime Minister and to lead them into the upcoming October Election. A previous Education Minister, the 44 year old replaces Jacinda Ardern to take on the Nationals Christopher Luxon.  Which Chris will voters choose? Image: Image – …

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NSW and Queensland to ban ChatGPT in public schools

New South Wales and Queensland have announced they will be restricting access to artificial intelligence software in public schools, citing concerns the software can facilitate cheating. Included in this ban is the recently released ChatGPT, a predictive text generating software that produces text on any subject based on a user’s prompt. Leading Australian universities, have …

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