- The Herald Sun and the Courier Mail lead reports that amid coronoavirus fears, flights from China to Australia were cancelled over the weekend after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced foreigners travelling from China would be banned from entering the country. Commissioner of the Australian Border Force Michael Outram said that Australia will "deny entry to anyone who was in or transited through mainland China on or since February 1 2020". He added that anyone arriving in Australia who has been to mainland China since February 1 would have their visa cancelled and placed in detention for a quarantine period.
- The Australian Financial Review (2) reports that Australian universities are being hit with a "triple whammy" of threats as the United Kingdom prepares to offer highly competitive visas to foreign students, just as bushfires and the coronavirus smash the reputation of Australia's $38 billion international higher education market. Under a new deal, the UK will offer students doing one-year master's degrees a right to work in the country for two years - a qualifying period half as long as in Australia - and puts the UK in the same highly-generous visa category as Canada and New Zealand.
Airport chaos as China flights cancelled
Herald Sun, Other, 02/02/2020, Grant McArthur, Sharon McGowan, Ashley Argoon and Rhiannon Down
Families of people travelling from China have been left in limbo after several flights were cancelled following a ban on foreigners entering Australia from China. It comes as a Monash University staffer has been confirmed as a coronavirus patient. Flights from China to Australia were rapidly cancelled yesterday just hours after the Prime Minister announced foreigners travelling from China would be banned from entering the country.
Australia on lockdown as medical authorities rush to contain the virus
The Courier Mail, Other, 02/02/2020, Eliot Hastie
Australia's Chief Medical Officer has given some scary insights into the coronavirus outbreak but says there is some good news. A third patient with the coronavirus was discharged in NSW over the weekend leading the government to believe the virus can be contained. Health Minister Greg Hunt appeared before the press on Sunday to give an update on the virus in Australia.
A couple in Adelaide have tested positive to the disease making it SA's first case of the virus
The Courier Mail, Other, 02/02/2020, Eliot Hastie
Adelaide has just confirmed its first case of coronavirus as the virus spreads to over 14,000 people worldwide. A Chinese couple testing positive to the disease having arrived in South Australia from Wuhan, China on January 20. The Adelaide Advertiser reports that the couple is in a stable condition in separate sealed quarantine rooms in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Australia on lockdown as medical authorities rush to contain the virus
The Mercury, Other, 02/02/2020, Eliot Hastie
A third patient with the coronavirus was discharged in NSW over the weekend leading the government to believe the virus can be contained. Health Minister Greg Hunt appeared before the press on Sunday to give an update on the virus in Australia.
More than 5,000 violent migrants - murderers and child rapists - have been kicked out of Australia
Daily Mail Australia, Other, 31/01/2020, Louise Ayling
An American national who punched his heavily pregnant ex girlfriend in the stomach is one of 5,000 migrants kicked out of Australia in the past five years. Figures from theDepartment of Home Affairs show that of those deported452 were child sex offenders, 220 were rapists, and 93 were murderers.
ABC News, ABC News - 11:00 (Weekend), 02/02/2020, Miriam Corowa
Press conference with Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy, and Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram in Canberra [about the coronavirus outbreak]. Outram recalls the PM announcing yesterday that all travellers arriving from Mainland China will be subject to enhanced border control measures to ensure the health and well-being of the community.
2SM, Mornings, 31/01/2020, John Laws
Laws reports that it has been revealed that over 5000 foreign nationals have been deported from the country due to offences from assault to murder by the Department of Immigration. He says The Australian reveals the deportation was due to new measures introduced in 2014.
Universities seek new markets after triple-blow
Australian Financial Review, Other, 31/01/2020, Robert Bolton
Universities are being hit with a "triple whammy" of threats as the United Kingdom gears up to offer highly competitive visas to foreign students, just as bushfires and the coronavirus smash the reputation of Australia's $38 billion international higher education market. Dan Tehan says the government is pushing universities to diversify their enrolments to new markets.
Universities wrong-footed by fires, a deadly virus and Brexit
Australian Financial Review, Other, 01/02/2020, Robert Bolton
Some people are calling it the four horsemen of the apocalypse for universities: drought, disease, competition and trade wars. Just when universities had a reasonably stable outlook, having moved past their recent conflict with the government over funding, the sector finds itself facing unexpected threats.
A mind-blowing idea
The Australian, Other, 01/02/2020, Cameron Stewart
As he prepared to drive a Formula One car for the first time, Rodrigo Hbner Mendes ran through the three things he would need to concentrate on in order to steer the car around the track - a soccer goal, delicious food and riding a bicycle. This was no ordinary Formula One car; it had no pedals and no steering wheel.
'Perfect storm': Rules relaxed for universities struggling with coronavirus
Sydney Morning Herald, Other, 31/01/2020
The university regulator will relax its rules on attendance and online content to help the sector cope with the impact of coronavirus on its lucrative international student market, which is facing its toughest condition in years. Phil Honeywood, the chair of a global reputation taskforce set up to co-ordinate the sector's response to the health crisis, warned the virus could have a "massive potential impact" on the third biggest industry in NSW, worth $39 billion a year nationally.
In practice, Chinese students in Australia are already quarantined
Sydney Morning Herald, Other, 02/02/2020
The popular wisdom doing the rounds this summer is that sometimes it takes a crisis to reveal our true qualities. But if the bushfires etched a portrait of the courage and generosity of ordinary people, the coronavirus is laying bare Australia's complicated and not always edifying relationship with China and its people, especially its students.
The Sydney suburbs sending the most students to selective schools
Sydney Morning Herald, Other, 02/02/2020
Sydney's selective schools are drawing the majority of their students from suburbs popular with skilled migrants, who hope a good education will help their children break through the so-called bamboo ceiling. As a proportion of the school-age population, Edmondson Park in south-west Sydney, Hurstville, and Carlingford are the suburbs that have the most students at selective high schools, new figures from the NSW Department of Education obtained under Freedom of Information laws show.
Secrets of success for skilled migrants happy in Launceston
Tasmanian Examiner, Other, 01/02/2020
In November, skilled migrants who had moved to Launceston shared the experiences of racism that caused them to leave. There are also, of course, many skilled migrants who move to this city and love their lives here - but it doesn't happen by accident.
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