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VEC Commissioner Sven Bluemmel said they are now publishing content in 29 languages. They have also formed advisory groups within the VEC, including CALD community members, to inform their communications.

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My question: Given the impact misinformation and disinformation have had on CALD communities in past elections, and the large CALD population in Victoria, what has the VEC done to improve information accessibility and digital literacy among culturally and linguistically diverse communities?

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University of Melbourne Professor of Political Communication Andrea Carson: Australians are among the most worried populations about disinformation and misinformation. 77% of Australians are worried that misinformation and disinformation are difficult to detect.

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Victoria’s Electoral Commissioner, Sven Bluemmel: The upcoming election will be the largest and most complicated to date. The biggest challenge: tackling disinformation and misinformation in the time of AI. Victorians will be at the forefront of this fight.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026

At an event at the Melbourne Press Club on the upcoming Victorian state election.

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Cornell University's faculty senate plans to vote on a rare resolution of no confidence over administrators’ handling of allegations of sexual assault by fraternity members in 2024.

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Cornell Faculty Members Signal Deep Anger With University Leaders

The faculty senate plans to vote on a rare resolution of no confidence over administrators’ handling of allegations of sexual assault by fraternity members in 2024.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What stage of the AI doom/hype loop are we at when the Financial Times is reminding readers that "if AI really does make humans extinct, every investment goes to zero"?

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can anyone think of another treaty-based international institution which has been sanctioned? This is insane.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 15/09/2026

I am talking about TAFE courses that have looser attendance and assignment requirements. As far as I know, that’s what visa agents would suggest. But this path would mean women are under more pressure to maintain their presence in domestic labour while also studying to maintain their visa status.

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"Citizens deemed to have "harmed" China's national security or interests while overseas can also be barred from leaving China for up to three years" big sigh. if you know you know. it's the people you think of from afar and the home that can't be returned to. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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China tightens travel restrictions for citizens

Observers say the new rules will further tighten the Chinese government's control over its citizens.

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Good point. I guess the only way for them to work around this is to apply for a student visa by enrolling in a one-year course at a smaller institution. But that would restrict their working hours and increase their financial and social reliance on their male partners.

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And we’ve been seeing this mental health crisis among international students, and now guess what? They’re being left to deal with it all on their own!

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International students are not to blame for the current crisis in Australia, as pointed out by numerous researches in the past years. But they have became such an easy target in every recent election to excuse all political parties’ dysfunction bc they can’t vote. I’m so tired of this.

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and 4) don’t necessarily occupy additional housing, as they often stay together with their families and tend not to purchase property because they are on temporary visas. There doesn’t seem to be much point in axing this group if the goal is to soothe tensions around resources.

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The move seems more ideological than anything to me. If we’re speaking purely from an economic perspective, international students and their families: 1) are entitled to work; 2) pay tax like everybody else; 3) can’t access Medicare because they don’t have PR;

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No article in a newsroom is a one-person job. It requires editorial teams and institutions more broadly to patiently and generously improve regional literacy, with the necessary time and resources. Unfortunately, most newsrooms in the Western world aren’t moving in that direction.

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How this article has been received really shows how much local identity has shifted in Taiwan: decades of Taiwan-focused historical research, alongside the growing tension between this emerging local-centric narrative, the KMT’s ROC-centric narrative, and the CCP’s Chinese nationalist narrative.

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They seem to have assumed that a Chinese American reporter would know this context, while multiple editors failed to treat the story with sufficient care. That’s partly because they themselves lack in-depth knowledge of Taiwan and the broader Sinophone world.

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