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International students are secret to reviving Perth’s CBD
A plan to bring back international students will support Western Australia’s economic recovery and revitalise Perth’s CBD, says the Property Council WA.
In the lead up to the state election on 13 March, the Property Council is calling on political parties to outline their commitments to a safe international student return program.
Property Council WA Executive Director Sandra Brewer says Western Australia’s relative success in managing the pandemic makes the state an attractive destination for international students.
“International students fund our universities, make a $2 billion contribution to our state economy and create vibrancy in our urban areas. These students are also future leaders with connections to our nearest trading partners,” Ms Brewer says.
March 9, 2021 at 6:00 am
When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she
won’t find. Fifteen years ago, the malacologist or mollusk scientist with the Australian Museum made an incredible discovery among the limestone outcrops there: a tiny, 3-millimeter-long snail, with a ribbed, dark golden-brown shell, that was new to science.
Subsequently named after her husband, Hugh Palethorpe, Palethorpe’s pinwheel snail (
Rhophodon palethorpei) “is only known from a single location, at the Kunderang Brook limestone outcrops in Werrikimbe National Park,” she says. Now it may become known for a different, more devastating distinction: It is one of hundreds of species that experts fear have been pushed close to, or right over, the precipice of extinction by the wildfires that blazed across more than 10 million hectares of southeastern Australia in the summer of 2019–2020.
Kenisha Gumbula, single mum from Arnhem Land, set to become first Yolngu lawyer
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MarMarch 2021 at 7:05pm
Kenisha thought law would be too hard for someone like her , but now she s almost qualified.
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Growing up on remote Elcho Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land, Kenisha Gurala Gumbula says it never occurred to her younger self to think of studying law.
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The 27-year-old decided to try law despite thinking it would be too hard for her
She hopes to inspire others, especially single mums, to try and follow their dreams
She saw others in the region s Yolngu-speaking communities working hard in schools and health clinics, but not inside the courtroom as a lawyer.
Mar 03, 2021 09:57 PM EST
The Australian government has formally recognized the loss of 13 endemic species, including 12 mammals and the first reptile to be lost since European colonization.
The dozen mammal species addition solidifies Australia s unenviable status as the world s mammal extinction capital, bringing the cumulative number of mammals believed to have died out to 34.
Inevitable
None of the 13 was unexpected. Except for one, all of the mammal extinctions are recent, with the majority occurring between the 1850s and 1950s.
However, the record contains two animals that have been extinct in the last decade, both from the Indian Ocean s Christmas Island.
According to The Guardian Australia, the last Christmas Island pipistrelle, a bat genus, died in 2009. In 2014, the last living Christmas Island forest skink - the first Australian reptile to go extinct - was discovered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has historically recorded all extinctions (IUCN)