AUSTRALIA: Many foreigners but few PhDs. So difficult has life become for Australian PhD and masters by research students that the numbers starting the degrees are falling and completion rates are among the lowest in the developed world. At the same time, foreign student commencements in PhD degree courses have rocketed by 125% over the past six years.


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TOURISM Queensland has finally tracked down the winner of a global competition to find a helper for Best Job in the World island caretaker Ben Southall. The tourism body has avoided an embarrassing redraw after Californian Barbie Defeo stepped forward to claim her prize - a seven-week, all expenses-paid holiday in the state for her and three friends.


Kiwi versus kangaroo in wine war New Zealand sauvignon blanc wine is squeezing the juice out of Australian chardonnay,...