Tuesday, 24 December 2013
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GENERAL
The PM and Minister George Brandis invited entries to the 2014 PM’s Literary Awards. [Full text]
AGRICULTURE/TRADE
Minister Barnaby Joyce supported all six recommendations in the Wheat Industry Advisory Taskforce report into stocks information. [Full text]
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert welcomed the Wheat Industry Advisory Taskforce report. [Full text]
DAFF issued documents on the practice of AQIS officers in NSW and QLD when inspecting and verifying fumigation of chickpeas prior to export, from October 2007 to November 2009 (FoI). [Full text]
HEALTH
Shadow Minister Catherine King discussed 2014 health insurance premiums (see yesterday’s Bulletin) in a News Radio interview. [Full text]
Greens Senator Richard Di Natale said the Government has agreed on a new national dental health scheme worth nearly $5 billion over 6 years. [Full text]
Private Healthcare Australia said the 2014 premium increase is necessary to ensure funds remain financially viable. [Full text]
The TGA issued ‘TGA reforms: A blueprint for TGA’s future – Progress report as at 30 June 2013’. [Full text]
AGRICULTURE/ENERGY/RESEARCH
The RIRDC issued ‘Integrating food and energy systems’. [Full text]
RESEARCH
The ARC issued ‘Evaluation of the Future Fellowships funding scheme 2013’. [Full text]
WATER/AGRICULTURE
The MDBA said Mildura Lock 11 has been closed for urgent repairs. [Full text]
EDUCATION/AGRICULTURE/ICT
The OLT issued ‘Development and evaluation of an iPad application as an e-learning tool for objective training in technical wine assessment’. [Full text]
EDUCATION
The OLT issued ‘Learning analytics: assisting universities with student retention’. [Full text]
TEQSA said a number of application forms will be amended in 2014. [Full text]
EARTH SCIENCES/EDUCATION/AID
GA has produced educational materials to help the people of PNG’s East New Britain Province to better understand the potential impacts of tsunami, earthquake and volcanic eruption. [Full text]
ICT
auDA issued a Domain Name News. [Full text]
SCIENCE MEDIA
We wish all Subscribers and Trialsters happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2014. [Full text]
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Monday, 23 December 2013
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HEALTH
Minister Peter Dutton said the weighted average annual increase in private health insurance premiums for 2014 will be 6.2%. [Full text]
Health issued information on increases approved for individual providers. [Full text]
Shadow Minister Catherine King said Minister Dutton has proved he has no concern for health consumers. [Full text]
The CHF said families face rises in health insurance premiums of $200 a year or more. [Full text]
Medicare issued its November statistical report. [Full text]
HEALTH/RESEARCH
The NHMRC issued a Health Research Translation newsletter. [Full text]
HEALTH/ICT
Minister Dutton has received the report of the review of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records system. [Full text]
ICT
Minister Malcolm Turnbull issued ‘Broadband Availability and Quality: Summary Report’. [Full text]
ICT/CRIMINOLOGY
The AIC issued ‘ID scanners in the night-time economy: Social sorting or social order?’ [Full text]
ICT/INNOVATION
NICTA issued a newsletter. [Full text]
IMMIGRATION
A transcript is online of the 20/12 briefing by Minister Scott Morrison and the Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders. [Full text]
Minister Morrison issued a statement on the case of an intellectually disabled woman held in Perth with her father while her mother and three siblings are on Christmas Island. [Full text]
IMMIGRATION/DEMOGRAPHY
The Parliamentary Library issued ‘Family Migration to Australia’. [Full text]
INFRASTRUCTURE
Minister Warren Truss said Brisbane Airport’s charter terminal has been approved for construction. [Full text]
Minister Truss announced approval for Melbourne Airport’s 2013 Master Plan. [Full text]
Shadow Minister Anthony Albanese said the IPA’s call for foreign-flagged ships to be exempt from requirements that they pay crews Australian-level wages can have only one outcome – job losses. [Full text]
GENERAL
Attorney-General George Brandis and Minister Michael Keenan welcomed the COAG decision to establish a Law, Crime and Community Safety Council . [Full text]
Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus condemned reports that the AHRC will need to cut programs to fund the $320,000 salary of new Commissioner Tim Wilson. [Full text]
ENERGY
Shadow Minister Mark Butler said after promising that he would keep the Renewable Energy Target in place, the PM looks set to break yet another election promise. [Full text]
FORESTRY/ENVIRONMENT
Mr Butler said the Government’s plan to remove 100,000 hectares of forest in Tasmania from the World Heritage Area is in conflict with the views of the forestry industry and environmentalists. [Full text]
ENVIRONMENT
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson called on Minister Greg Hunt to resign, saying he doesn’t have the guts or integrity to stand up for his own convictions, let alone our whales or the environment. [Full text]
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert said an open letter to the WA Government co-signed by 100 scientists calls for non-lethal measures to protect beach-goers. [Full text]
DISABILITY
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert said the Coalition is being disingenuous with claims that a new approach to the Disability Support Pension is designed to help people into work. [Full text]
EDUCATION
The National Skills Standards Council issued a communiqué from its 5/12 meeting. [Full text]
AEI issued ‘International students in the ELICOS sector in 2012’. [Full text]
AEI issued ‘The global context of tertiary student mobility’. [Full text]
AEI issued ‘Onshore higher education international students as a proportion of all onshore students by university, 2012’. [Full text]
TEQSA has issued a finalised material change notification policy and process. [Full text]
The OLT issued ‘INSIGNIA: an open badge system for research training and supervision at ANU’. [Full text]
EDUCATION/ICT
The OLT issued ‘Measuring and improving student course engagement and learning success through online student evaluation systems’. [Full text]
The OLT issued ‘Professional development for academics: evaluating a personalised mobile website for learning from student feedback’. [Full text]
The OLT issued ‘Open for learning: using open data tools and techniques to support student learning’. [Full text]
The OLT issued ‘Enhancing tertiary Chinese foreign language learning through task-based language learning in 3D multiuser virtual environments’. [Full text]
SCIENCE EDUCATION/MATHEMATICS/ENGINEERING
AEI issued ‘International students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in Australian higher education institutions’. [Full text]
ACADEMIES
The Academy of Science issued its submission to the Commission or Audit. [Full text]
CLIMATE CHANGE
The ACF said the Emissions Reduction Fund Green Paper aims for pollution cuts that are simply insufficient. [Full text]
BIOSECURITY
DAFF issued a Final policy review: ‘Alternative risk management measures to import Lilium spp. cut flowers from Taiwan’. [Full text]
WATER
The NWC issued a newsletter. [Full text]
TRADE
The ADC issued an updated Dumping and Subsidy Manual. [Full text]
The ADC invited comment on draft 2014 Dumping and Subsidy Manual chapters. [Full text]
ECONOMY
Minister Mathias Cormann said Bill Shorten should reflect on advice from former Minister Craig Emerson that Labor must help repair the budget mess they left behind. [Full text]
SCIENCE MEDIA
‘Your service has the dual benefit of being comprehensive and terse’ – a satisfied Trialster. [Full text]
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