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Reaction to radical budget-cutting in the United Kingdom started to get hot this week (10.11.10). with student protests in London over a blow-out of university fees becoming rough. … Read More »
The lucky countries Norway and Australia have headed the rankings in this year’s United Nations quality of life measure – the 20th anniversary Human Development index.
Designed to show “real wealth” the measure puts together variables of wellbeing, taking in incomes, health or education, reaching to employment and life expectancy. … Read More »
At any given time, it seems, half the youth of Australia can be found in Europe. Ever since large numbers began travelling over to the London Overseas Visitors Club, on the Strathaird, Oriana or similar, in early post war days, It has become almost a rite of passage for Australian young to go off to the old continent with a backpack. For ,EUAustralia Online, Stephanie Lim made her journey, asking constantly: “What is it about Europe that attracts so many holiday-makers there? Is Europe truly the home of glitz and glamour that we see featured on television? And why are they laughing at me?” … Read More »
The European Commission has produced a ten-year economic development plan (3.3.10), saying endemic problems had set in before the global economic crisis in 2008-9, and needed joint action by all governments. … Read More »
At 8:30pm tonight, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour - and cast their vote for action on climate change. … Read More »
An Australian-first alliance between three of the country’s main universities will expand higher learning in a range of European and Asian languages.
With $2.27 million in Australian Government funding, the Brisbane-based University of Queensland (UQ), Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will pool teaching of at least nine languages. … Read More »
An Italian Catholic priest is facing severe criticism from parents, as a prize meanie, for telling their children that Father Christmas does not really exist.
Father Dino Bottino, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Novara, Northern Italy, let out the secret at a children’s mass earlier this month. … Read More »