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By Vanja Bezbradica - 24/06/2010 - 01:46For the next three months, the city is officially to be known as MelBurton”, declared ACMI Director Tony Sweeney, at yesterday morning’s media preview of Tim Burton: The Exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). “Visitors can expect a true sensory delight from this exhibition with fascinating and inspiring glimpse into the world of a most wondrous creative mind,” Mr Sweeney said. The exhibit officially opens to the public today and features more than 700 masterpieces from Tim Burton, including fifteen feature films such as Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of The Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) and Sweeny Todd (2007). Photos by Nikita Vaz... |
By V. Caitlin G. MJ - 23/06/2010 - 18:57Travel concessions for international students were addressed in a pioneering cross-campus summit on international students this April. Hosted by Monash University, the summit revealed that Victoria and New South Wales were the only remaining states in Australia where international students must pay full fare prices for public transport travel. The unsubsidised cost of a Zone One Monthly ticket is $109.60 – 50 per cent more than what a local student pays. Strategic policy director of Australian Education International, Patrick Willix, said this is largely because 70 per cent of Australia’s international students are located in Victoria and NSW, hence making it very costly for the government to subsidise the travel fares. Mr Willix said that the official reason international students are unable to receive concessions is because international students do not pay income tax and will “cause taxpayers to be unhappy." Welfare program coordinator for Melbourne-based Lonsdale Institute, Nina Wills, begged to differ saying “international students are allowed to work 20 hours a week and the pay they earn is tax deductable." Ms Wills, a member of one of the biggest and highest achieving international training organizations, also said that this predicament “does not impose any problems on the government” and that it is just “purely political." A survey of 670 international students by the... |
By Craig Butt - 21/06/2010 - 15:18Copies of The Origin of Species with an introduction critical of evolution were handed out at universities in March in response to the Global Atheist Convention. 12 000 books were distributed in Melbourne in the week prior to the event, which was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre between March 12 – 14. The convention was the first of its kind in Australia and included speeches by biologist and The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, radio host Philip Adams and former Age columnist Catherine Deveny.
The giveaways were organized by Ray Comfort, a New Zealand born evangelist, author and television host. His United States based ministry, Living Waters, funded the printing of the books. Comfort also wrote the 49-page introduction at the beginning of the books, which are labeled as the ‘150th Anniversary Edition’ of The Origin of Species. Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species is widely regarded as one of the most important books in the history of Western civilisation. In it, Darwin revolutionized the natural sciences with his theory of evolution, which states that living things change and adapt to their environment over generations through the process of natural selection. The theory has been challenged both by creationists, who believe the Biblical account of... |
