Australia News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 23, 2025.
MIL-Evening Report: Head knocks and ultra-violence: viral games Run It Straight and Power Slap put sports safety back centuries
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Yorke, Lecturer in sport management, Western Sydney University runitstraight24/instagram.com, The Conversation, CC BY Created in Australia, “Run It Straight” is a new, ultra-violent combat sport. Across a 20×4 metre grassed “battlefield,” players charge at full speed toward one another. Alternating between carrying the ball (ball runner) […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Job Scam Fusion Cell disrupts fake job networks targeting Australians
Source: Australian Ministers for Regional Development The National Anti-Scam Centre’s Job Scam Fusion Cell removed more than 29,000 scam social media accounts and 1850 fake job advertisements in a crackdown on employment scams targeting vulnerable Australians looking to ease cost of living pressures. The fusion cell, which ran from September 2024 to March 2025, has […]
MIL-OSI USA: State selects 24 students for West Virginia’s prestigious teaching scholarship – West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
Source: US State of West Virginia Incoming college freshmen will receive $40,000 Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars award CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Twenty-four high school seniors who graduated this year have been selected as West Virginia’s sixth cohort of Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars. These students will receive the state’s newest and most prestigious scholarship of up to $10,000 per […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Australia – Volunteers get back as much as they give, survey finds – AMES
Source: AMES Volunteering to help individuals can build skills and knowledge, enhance employment opportunities, provide new and challenging experiences as well as deliver feelings of personal satisfaction through contributing, a new survey has found. It also delivers measurable benefits to those being supported; including help in finding work and acquiring skills as well intangible and […]
MIL-Evening Report: Australian roads are getting deadlier – pedestrians and males are among those at greater risk
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne At least ten people died in fatal crashes earlier this month in a single 48-hour period on Victorian roads. It was the latest tragic demonstration of the mounting road trauma in […]
MIL-Evening Report: There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Rowe, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University LBeddoe/Shutterstock Earlier this week, The Sydney Morning Herald reported one of Sydney’s top public high schools had more than 2,000 students for the first time, thanks to the booming population in the area. This follows similar reports of other […]
MIL-OSI: Freshia Air Purifier Under Review: Best Home Air Purifier For Dust, Mold & Odor Control
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) Helmond, Netherlands, May 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The quality of air that we breathe significantly impacts our overall health, and we are sure that we all agree on this, don’t we? Most of us live with this misconception that only when we step outside our homes and breathe the air is […]
MIL-OSI: Urbana Corporation Congratulates the Canadian Securities Exchange on its Acquisition of the National Stock Exchange of Australia
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) /NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. WIRE SERVICESOR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE U.S./ TORONTO, May 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Urbana Corporation (“Urbana” or the “Corporation”) (TSX and CSE: URB, URB.A) congratulates CSNX Markets Inc. (“CSE”) on its entering into an agreement with the NSX Limited (“NSX”) to acquire the NSX, owner of […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Varying PAYG instalments for your SMSF
Source: New places to play in Gungahlin If you’re a PAYG instalment amount payer, your instalments have been increased by the gross domestic product (GDP) adjustment factor. For the 2025–26 income year, the GDP adjustment factor is 4%. We’ll use the latest information you’ve provided to us when you lodge your SMSF annual return to […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Free Gaelic language courses to be launched in Perth and Kinross
Source: Scotland – City of Perth For complete beginners, a new eight-week gentle introduction to Gaelic has been developed, and will be offered on a rolling basis, with plans to rotate locations around Perth and Kinross. This is an ideal pre-cursor to the second option of a supported self-study course for new learners, based on […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: £530 million investment prospectus launched
Source: Scotland – City of Perth Presented to a high-profile audience of government representatives, private investors, developers, and funding bodies, the prospectus outlines eight transformative projects that collectively support Perth & Kinross’s ambitions to lead in sustainability and clean economic growth. Spanning a 15-year period from 2025 to 2040, the portfolio covers market-ready opportunities, and […]
MIL-OSI: XRP News: XenDex Presale Ends in 6 Days, Secure $XDX Before Listings Go Live on Binance, FirstLedger, Gate.io, Magnetic & More
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) SYDNEY, Australia, May 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As XRP makes waves across the global crypto landscape, XenDex is quickly becoming the most talked-about DeFi launch on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). With just 6 days left in the presale, urgency is at an all-time high as early investors race to secure $XDX […]
MIL-OSI USA: Kamlager-Dove Statement on House Passage of Republicans’ Big Backstabbing Bill
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager California (37th District) WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) released the following statement after House passage of the Republican reconciliation bill: “House Republicans just sold out their constituents to the highest bidders: Donald Trump and his billionaire boys club. Debated and brought to […]
MIL-OSI Australia: $2 million to extinguish battery fire risk in Queensland
Source: Tasmania Police Issued: 22 May 2025 Sparked by the recent spike in battery fires, the Queensland Government has committed $2 million to put out the battery fire risk in Queensland by expanding collection points. With more than 200 battery-related fires in Queensland in the past year, the Local Government Battery Collection Program is part […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Townsville man fined for illegal dumping
Source: Tasmania Police Issued: 22 May 2025 The man received a hefty fine for unlawfully dumping the rubbish. DETSI investigates every case of illegal dumping. A man has received a hefty fine for unlawfully dumping rubbish in bushland in the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park. Remote cameras captured a ute with rubbish in the tray […]
MIL-OSI Australia: International cricket in Canberra this summer
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services In brief: The 2025-26 international cricket schedule has launched. This includes two matches in Canberra at Manuka Oval. This article includes details plus the full Season 2025-26 international schedule around Australia. Canberra will host two international cricket matches this summer. In the much-anticipated summer of cricket, featuring the […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Update – Serious Crash at Blackwood
Source: New South Wales – News A motorcycle rider has been seriously injured in a crash at Blackwood this afternoon. Just after 3.30pm on Thursday 22 May, police were called to Shepherds Hill Road after reports of a collision between a truck and motorcycle. The rider, a 46-year-old man from Blackwood, sustained serious injuries in […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Drummond Arms Hotel
Source: Scotland – City of Perth Works to make the Drummond Arms safe in accordance with Dangerous Building Notice (DBN) will commence week beginning 26 May. The Contractor will be setting up their site compound with removal works commencing on 2 June 2025. The first stage will be to remove the partially collapsed outbuilding to […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Two walkers rescued from west coast wilderness
Source: New South Wales Community and Justice Two walkers rescued from west coast wilderness Thursday, 22 May 2025 – 7:14 pm. Despite numerous warnings to bushwalkers of being prepared, police were again required to rescue two walkers from the west coast wilderness today.Police search and rescue personnel including the Westpac Rescue Helicopter were deployed to […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Open the Door and See the Mountain: Reflections from a Recent Trip to China
Source: Airservices Australia Introduction Of all the trends shaping the Australian economy over the past half century, one of the most profound has been the long swing towards Asia (Graph 1) and, more specifically in recent years, China – now our biggest single trading partner by a country mile (Table 1). But China is also front and […]