Dr Denis Blight AO
@denis_blight
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Aussie Diplomat: 2 years in Turkey, Kenya, & UK on its Joint Intelligence Committee, long-serving CEO IDP, CABI, & Crawford Fund, Visiting Fellow ANU. Writer.
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Joined October 2009
I went to uni to train as a chemistry teacher, did a PhD, met Colombo Plan students, got involved in student politics & was recruited to DFAT. I led IDP in recruiting foreigners to study in Australia contributing to a now $29 billion industry. Uni did that for me and my country.
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The intractable conflict twixt Israel and Palestine requires the world not to pick sides but to impose a solution to be implemented over time under international supervision.
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Sobering thought from the UK HEPI: Just look at what happened in #Australia and #Canada with the imposition of caps and quotas on international student numbers when they got mixed up with calls to clampdown on #immigration.”
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“ https://t.co/BmgjTQTX3W via @NYTimes” But we should not get too excited by the apparent failure of the latest missile test.
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Satellite photos showing a 200-foot-wide crater at a launch site indicate that the Sarmat missile, said by the Kremlin to travel at five times the speed of sound, might not be ready for duty.
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Supporting developing countries and “last but not least” the Australian wheat sector. @CrawfordFund
CIMMYT is in full force at #IWC2024Perth. We hope to demonstrate our impact on smallholder farmers in developing countries, solving global challenges, driving scientific innovation, and last but not least, supporting the Australian wheat sector. 🤝Thanks to @MU_CCFI_Biotech.
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Are America’s right and left converging on foreign policy? -
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Record numbers of temporary graduates in immigration limbo - https://t.co/3HZQMF8QOU Temporary graduate visas allowed graduates to stay after graduation for a limited period to gain work experience then to return home. A proportion applied to immigrate, many are now in limbo.
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From Aussie politics to Henry Lawson: the story of how ‘Australian studies’ spread across China - https://t.co/yGMr8O2A1e Great to the spread of in China of Australian Studies.
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Being a member of Hamas would be an automatic visa refusal under s501 of Migration Act. But just about every Palestinian would support some Hamas objectives (eg a Palestinian state). That would not be a breach of s501. @QandA
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What does China really want from Myanmar? - Nikkei Asia Stability?
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The fall of Lashio marks a turning point for Beijing's pro-regime strategy
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Do 84 percent of overseas students go home? - https://t.co/CRmfaEgIEg I am not sure of the sums in this article but I share the conclusion for both government and provider action.
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‘Alien invasion’: researchers identify which exotic animals may soon hitchhike into Australia https://t.co/IlUh52aqWs via @ConversationEDU
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Invasive alien species become much harder and more expensive to manage as they establish and spread through the landscape. So preventing their arrival is vital.
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To understand how slanted @nytimes coverage is now - see the French elections headlines: @washingtonpost 'Far-Right suffers unexpected blow' @CNN 'Leftists beat Far Right' @nytimes 'French Election Yealds Deadlock' almost as bad as @FoxNews's predictable 'Riots erupt'
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@"UK general election, ATEC, ESOS Bill: Latest rundown of higher education" https://t.co/1KlOGqQnmw on @LinkedIn Meanwhile in Australia, UA Says the crackdown on international student visas is not helping stability in higher education.
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From the Chief Executive Officer It’s election season! I have been keeping a close eye today on the UK general election results and, as widely predicted, the Labour Party has ended 14 years in the...
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@KosSamaras Not one Labor figure,including any Muslim Labor MP, has come out to condemn Dutton’s racist slurs yesterday. Imagine the firestorm if the possibility of other religious MPs from Western Sydney had been described in that way These Labor figures are lost https://t.co/cAymtWn77n
"It will included Muslim candidates from Western Sydney, it will be a disaster". As a Muslim who grew up in Western Sydney I find this comment from someone who is running for PM an absolute disgrace. Bigotry at its finest. Fueling Islamophobia from the very top.
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Senator Payman, Palestine, and caucus solidarity - Pearls and Irritations Caucus Solidarity Forever Until it is Changed
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“Australians get the benefits of migration, even the doubters | Lowy Institute” But attitudes may vary according to the form of immigration. If different forms of immigration are conflated in the data with NOM is the distinction twixt each being lost?
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The latest Lowy Institute Poll captures the nuanced attitude of the public to a hotly contested political theme.
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