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The knife: weapon of choice

By JF Beck Mon, Feb 22, 2010 5:31PM UTC

Handguns are bulky, hard to conceal, costly and difficult to obtain. Knives, on the other hand, are light, readily available and easily concealed. Perhaps more importantly, a knife is a man’s weapon – any girl can stand back and blast away with a gun but a knife is an up

The tale of an international student’s experience in Perth

By Murdoch University Mon, Feb 22, 2010 3:29PM UTC

‘Worried!’ ‘Homesick!’ ‘Cold!’ These were the feelings I had when I first arrived in Perth, Western Australia, as a student, in cold winter weather some years back. I had never left my family before, and as I was in a foreign land for the first time all by myself, these

Education: Australia, China look to the future

By australiatop10 Mon, Feb 22, 2010 10:13AM UTC

Interview with the Australian Ambassador to China, Dr Geoff Raby In the past three years, the number of Chinese students travelling to Australia to study has increased by 60 percent. Today, there are over 150,000 Chinese student enrolments in Australia and represent around 25 percent of the total number of

Queensland education: Study in the Sunshine State

By australiatop10 Mon, Feb 22, 2010 9:08AM UTC

In 2009, over 100,000 international students from more than 160 countries chose to study at Queensland institutions including secondary schools, English-language colleges, vocational education and training (VET) colleges, and universities. Queensland’s international student population is extremely diverse, with more than 160 nationalities represented. In 2009 India, China, Korea, Brazil, Taiwan,

Who is John Galt?

By University of Queensland Sun, Feb 21, 2010 12:52PM UTC

Who is John Galt Mainstone? He is the man whose job is, arguably, more boring than watching paint dry. It might be the most boring job in the world. For the last 82 years, the School of Mathematics and Physics at The University of Queensland, where I was briefly, is running