Australian Nobel Prize winners celebrate over champagne, beer
The University of Sydney has so far trained 8 prime ministers, 2 Nobel Prize winners, 3 astronauts, 110 Rhodes Scholars, 1 Pulitzer Prize winner and 145 Olympians. Research collaborations between the University of Sydney and...
China appeared to have blocked Western news websites, including theBBCand CNN, and state media made no mention of the ceremony, aside from a statement condemning the prize Ref (http://tvnz.co.nz/nobel) Winners of previous Nobel prize Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980: –2010: ...
The Australian education system inherits the British tradition and has so far bred 15 Nobel Prize winners. A quarter of the world's best universities are located here. Australia's education system has become a world benchmark. Universal welfare ...
However, there would have been no political downside to warmly congratulating ICAN for this international recognition for trying to prevent nuclear war. Although we dont hear much about the dangers of nuclear weapons, the threat is real. Many atomic scientists and others believe the threat...
The Ockham New Zealand 2025 Book Awards winners were announced at the Auckland Literary Festival today. The winning titles are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) Delirious (Damien Wilkins, Te Herenga Waka University Press) (I’ve reserved this at the library.) ...
Not that everyone in this country associated Australia only with wallabies, boomerangs and, more recently, Paul Hogan. “I think possibly there has always been an awareness of Australian writing, largely because of Patrick White, who won the Nobel Prize. But it was an awareness in that monumen...
My books are shelved alphabetically, with Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia and my collections of Miles Franklin and Booker winners all getting dedicated shelves of their own. The rest of the Fiction TBR shelves are international authors, many of them harvested from second-hand shops when there...