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Australia is capping new international students next year, in an effort to curb record migration.The country plans to limit international student enrollments to 270,000 in 2025, Australian education minister announced on Tuesday. In 2023, there were just over 400,000 new international students."There's about 10% more international students in our universities today than before the pandemic,…

A new Australian law protects workers who don't respond to work-related messages outside of their working hours, with some exceptions. Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Getty Images Millions of Australians just got official permission to ignore their bosses outside of working hours, thanks to a new law enshrining their "right to disconnect." The law…

Australian breaker Rachael Gunn — better known as "Raygun" — addressed the controversy and misinformation that has followed her performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.Gunn represented Team Australia in breaking's debut at the 2024 Olympics. She sustained three losses in the round-robin portion of the competition to breakers from the United States, France, and Lithuania and…

Gina Rinehart has long been one of Australia's richest people thanks to her company Hancock Prospecting, which controls the country's largest iron ore mine.The 70-year-old is in 103rd place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, worth an estimated $18.8 billion, although that figure has fallen by $8.4 billion this year. She's also the world's ninth-richest woman,…

Humans have only explored about 5% of the world's oceans, and we have limited ability to study sea life in the wild, but large predators like dolphins and seals can help.That's why a team of researchers in Australia outfitted eight female sea lions with small video-camera packs.All eight of the sea lions had pups, which…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used to train AI models powering image generators—even when platforms prohibit scraping and families use strict privacy settings. Last month, HRW researcher Hye Jung Han found 170 photos of Brazilian kids that were linked in LAION-5B,…

Speaking at a Senate estimates hearing, meetings where Australian senators examine how the government is spending taxpayers' money, on Friday, gallery director Nick Mitzevich said: "We're expecting the visitor numbers to continue to be dynamic."It comes after Gina Rinehart, 70, the billionaire mining magnate, and associates from her company, Hancock Prospecting, approached the gallery several…

Scammers in Australia are using deepfake photos and videos of celebrities to steal from people in increasingly creative ways.The scammers use fake news articles and deepfake videos to trick people into believing that a celebrity is asking them for a large sum of money.In one example, scammers shared fake photos of Robert Irwin — son…

Australia's richest woman wants a portrait of her taken down from the country's national gallery, outlets including the Sydney Morning Herald reported.Both mining magnate Gina Rinehart and associates at her company, Hancock Prospecting, have made multiple approaches to the gallery with the demand, the newspaper reported.The painting is by Vincent Namatjira, a First Nations artist…

Chinese fighter jets keep targeting Australian aircraft capable of finding and defeating submarines with hazardous maneuvers, suggesting that subs may be what the Chinese jets are guarding so fiercely."Concealing its submarines and discretely accessing deep waters are seen as ongoing challenges for China," Justin Burke, a senior policy advisor at the National Security College, wrote…